Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-05-10, Predrag Punosevac punoseva...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to hear opinion about: Dell PowerEdge R210 II Ultra-compact Rack Server These work fine, quite nice machines. I am looking at the one with Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Adapter, Gigabit Ethernet NIC, PCIe x4 I think

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-10 Thread Hrvoje Popovski
On 10.5.2012 3:28, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, we will have only two

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, we will have only two small (16 and 8 nodes) clusters, a GPU based super

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Oyen
there is a project that you can install an embedded version of openbsd on. its called the routerboard project. no need for power sapping drives, big screens and all that junk. I don't have the site on hand, but it is out there. -eric On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Marcin wrote: Hello, I am

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
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.

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Henning Brauer(lists-open...@bsws.de) on 2012.04.17 11:52:49 +0200: 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:15 CEST, Sebastian Benoit benoit-li...@fb12.de wrote: Henning Brauer(lists-open...@bsws.de) on 2012.04.17 11:52:49 +0200: I thought about being able to power cycle the machine when it freezes that hard, when it may not drop into ddb. Otherwise yes,

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Marcin
On 17 April 2012 09:35, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Marcin mig...@gmail.com [2012-04-17 08:59]: What I am after: * 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Marcin mig...@gmail.com [2012-04-17 18:11]: On 17 April 2012 09:35, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Marcin mig...@gmail.com [2012-04-17 08:59]: What I am after: * 2 sockets, what for? unless you run extremely heavy userland proxies, you don't get much (any) benefit,

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sevan / Venture37
On 17/04/2012 08:35, Henning Brauer wrote: 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. +1 Have a pair of X9SCM-F-O with

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: 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

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 21:04 CEST, Claudio Jeker cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Marcin mig...@gmail.com [2012-04-17

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-04-17, Marcin mig...@gmail.com wrote: * at least one/preferably two PCI-X slots to add one dual/couple of single fibre network cards usually PCIE on anything modern * IPMI 2.0 with out of band management if rs232 isn't enough, you want one with a dedicated nic on a secure management