On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-08-29, Paul Suh <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm looking for a mini-ITX motherboard with at least 4 x Gig-E ports. I would >> like to fit two of them into a 1U, dual mini-ITX case to have a CARP/SASYNC >> pair with connections to external, internal, and DMZ zones. >> >> <http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=0000000016> > > I strongly recommend against that type of chassis for two redundant firewalls, > I think it's better to use two short depth boxes back-to-back (with ports on > the front, like supermicro 503L-200), or some type of chassis where you can at > least swap the PSUs without taking both machines down. > > If the hardware requirements were lower something like the Yawarra cases for > PCEngines alix boards aren't bad (two in a single 1U case, but they can be > removed independently) but that's not going to be good for 4x1Gb.
Stuart, Thanks, I know that two short cases back-to-back would be better (in fact I have a very nice single short depth case in there right now), but other equipment on the other side makes that setup infeasible. Space is kinda tight and I don't want to have to start paying for a whole other rack. Because it's a data center with multiple machines behind the routers I really want something that can support ~500 Gbps so that we can use the full speed that we are paying for. --Paul [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
