Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Joshua Smith
i don't do pf/carp on them, but ibm x3550's are awesome general purpose servers and I do not see why they would not be excellent pf boxes. On Dec 7, 2007 2:13 PM, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Matthew Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-06 15:54]: Does anyone have recommendations on

Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Beck
* Matthew Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-06 15:54]: Does anyone have recommendations on server hardware for setting up a redundant OpenBSD firewall? Right now our network handles several million HTTP requests per day, and we expect that to continue growing. I expect a simple pair of Dell

Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 12/7/07, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run an awful lot of simple pairs of Dell Rackmounted servers. (as well as hp, ibm. etc.) I've done this with dell 950's, 1650, 1750, 1850, and 1435's - lately I buy 1435's... Awesome, we actually have two spare 1435s that we decided to

Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-06 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Does anyone have recommendations on server hardware for setting up a redundant OpenBSD firewall? Right now our network handles several million HTTP requests per day, and we expect that to continue growing. I expect a simple pair of Dell rackmounted servers should handle this easily, but I thought