Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-05 Thread Kostas Zorbadelos
Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org writes: Thsnks for the replies. I haven't come across any problems with bnx(4). Did you look at 2U boxes at all? I am interested mainly in 1U boxes. Reliability is the most crucial factor because the machines will be deployed in remote places,

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-05 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 21:02, Kostas Zorbadelos kzo...@otenet.gr wrote: The only remaining question is PERC H200 support. mpii(4) should cover the Dell PERC H200.

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/04/05 22:02, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: Yes, clear. I think I will add R610 to the options. The only remaining question is PERC H200 support. It is not mentioned in mfi(4), so should I consider it unsupported? this is an H200: $ ssh mh3-pl7 dmesg|grep -e Dell -e mpii bios0: vendor Dell

Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-04 Thread Kostas Zorbadelos
Hello all, we are about to engage a procurement procedure of servers. There is a high probability to purchase DELL hardware. I want OpenBSD to be supported on the hardware. I have 2 broad options - Go with PowerEdge R410 - Go with PowerEdge R620 (latest generation of servers) The first option

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-04 Thread Johan Beisser
Dell has an ugly habit of changing components even within the same model year of hardware. You can't predict how well supported something is based on PowerEdge R410 until you have your specific one in front of you. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Kostas Zorbadelos kzo...@otenet.gr wrote: Hello

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-04-04, Kostas Zorbadelos kzo...@otenet.gr wrote: Hello all, we are about to engage a procurement procedure of servers. There is a high probability to purchase DELL hardware. I want OpenBSD to be supported on the hardware. I have 2 broad options - Go with PowerEdge R410 - Go with

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
So your choice is between hardware which should already work in OpenBSD and hardware which (at least the nics) is known not to work yet but might work sometime in the future. Nobody here can make that decision for you :) Last time such issues happened, the people involved made sure we had the