-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 marvin horst wrote: | I've run out of older boxes to use for my leaf servers. Are there any | hardware recommendations for a nice compact setup? | | My one box needs 4 network ports because I'm routing between 3 local | subnets and the internet. The other boxes would need 3 network ports. I'm | also running openvpn across the internet between leaf servers. I was | thinking of upgrading to gigabit ethernet but I'm not sure how much | 'horsepower' is required. | | Currently I'm running Bering uClib on 1.0 Ghz Celeron with about 256Mb | memory using 10/100 ethernet cards and booting from CD with setup saving to | floppy. This is working okay but my old hardware is starting to die off. I'd | like to have a server thats smaller in size and also not boot from the | floppy anymore.
I just setup a couple of Teak 3258 boxes and I've been pretty happy with them. They're 1U rack-mount and fanless: http://www.arinfotek.com/product/product.asp?idx=2002&pid=17 I actually needed more than 4 network ports on one system, but I cheated. I run 4 802.1q VLANs over eth2, which gives me 6 usable interfaces (eth0-1 & vlan2-5) and leaves eth3 as a spare. You might be able to do something similar with the boxes that only have 2 or 3 interfaces if you've got a switch that supports tagged VLANs. I had to upgrade my switch (to a NetGear GS724T) to support VLANs, but I got to migrate to GigE in the process. :) For traffic going mostly to and from the internet, sending multiple networks through the same interface using VLANs doesn't cause any traffic congestion...at least on my cable-modem which maxes out around 5-6 MBits/s (vs 100 MBit ethernet ports). - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIMq8MLywbqEHdNFwRAjg9AJ9g2+UFkH9Yay7GxI9b/NCrSPiVoQCgwhPH wpiTFF1i3C7S0q8CB5KCx9A= =rdRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
