* Sebastian Reitenbach <sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de> [2012-04-17 11:45]: > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:47 CEST, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de> > wrote: > > * Sebastian Reitenbach <sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de> [2012-04-17 10:40]: > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > > > <lists-open...@bsws.de> wrote: > > > > * Marcin <mig...@gmail.com> [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > > > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based > > > > > firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336s, but they are slowly > > > > > approaching end of life. > > > > > What I am after: > > > > > * 1U i386/amd64 server, > > > > > * 2 sockets, > > > > what for? unless you run extremely heavy userland proxies, you don't > > > > get much (any) benefit, especially given that the one-socket machines > > > > are all 4core now. > > > > > * RAID 1 SAS/SATA controller (2 hard drives are enough) > > > > what for? that increases complexity and thus chance to fail with no > > > > benefit. you have no precious data on those disks and have two > > > > machines. > > > > I'm very happy with Supermicro X9SC* based systems, with Xeon E3-1220 > > > > and an Intel SSD. Check with your local supplier for exact model > > > > options. Superior performance, 35W idle, no trouble whatsoever, fair > > > > pricing. > > > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I was going to ask a very similar > > > question later today. > > > I've seen, some of those boards have IPMI interface, which would be one > > > of my requirements. > > I don't use their ipmi, all hail cereal consoles. > I thought about being able to power cycle the machine when it freezes that > hard, when it > may not drop into ddb. Otherwise yes, serial console would suffice, even > rebooting from > within ddb. I hope it may not happen at all, but who knows, hardware may be > faulty, and > weird things may happen ;)
I use seperate power controllers. > > > I'd like to know if my assumption to the cards are right, and whether > > > this box would be able > > > to handle that kind of bandwidth the cards provide. It actually only > > > needs to handle about 3GB/s, > > > but don't want to start trunking GigaBit interfaces. Or if I'm wrong with > > > my assumptions, > > > if someone has good experience with other 10GbE adapters. > > it should, I think, but this is always a bit hard to predict. > Also here, thanks. I didn't expected to get around of a test, just wanted to > get a little bit > of confidence, I don't move into a totally wrong direction with my > assumptions. looks like you're right on track :) let us know how it goes. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
