Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours). Here are my worries: 1) If I were to put this machine into production, it

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:59PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours). Of course,

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Maciej Wierzbicki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:07:59PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: Removing IPF for 5.4-STABLE seems to have made the boxes stable. I switched all the firewalls to PF and they haven't crashed since, its been about 3 days now... (before they were crashing every 12 hours). The similar situation:

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Juszczak
After changing to PF I did not notice single crash for month (production servers with, sometimes, heavy load). I would try FreeBSD with PF anyway. Works perfectly. You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Maciej Wierzbicki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:53:20PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of uptime isn't perfectly. It is, comparing to two- or three-day uptime periodic when it crashes. With IPF.

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Max Laier
On Thursday 30 June 2005 23:58, Maciej Wierzbicki wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:53:20PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD with PF because it works perfectly. To me, a month of uptime isn't perfectly. It is, comparing to

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Dominic Marks
On Thursday 30 June 2005 22:53, Matt Juszczak wrote: After changing to PF I did not notice single crash for month (production servers with, sometimes, heavy load). I would try FreeBSD with PF anyway. Works perfectly. You say it didn't crash for a month, but then you say to try FreeBSD

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Matt Juszczak
Could you not use pfsync to mitigate the problem (at least partially)? As for your original question, I think its less work to change your hardware to something you know works than changing operating systems. Why not use single CPU machines for this? My boss refuses :-(

Re: Two Options: which to choose?

2005-06-30 Thread Joel
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:07:59 -0400 (EDT) Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [...] Therefore, part of me is thinking of switching back to either 4.11 or to OBSD 3.7. Problem is, this switch wouldn't be temporary, it would have to be permanant. I couldn't set things up now and then move