On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi misc, > > I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should > have more than four NICs. > > Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC limitation. > We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the two-port > onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the way they work. > > I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU for > what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense IPSec > traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them could have > encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't know if it > works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). > > In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs (at > least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at least at > ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to use trunk, > pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. > > Thanks, > Martmn. > >
We run a pair of dell 1950s and have been generally happy with them. We run one dual port intel card and the two build in ports, no problem pushing about 400mbit. The intel cards have worked ok for us for years now in various versions. You can configure the box with two dual nics or two quad nics on the dell web.
