Re: motherboard/nics advices for an OpenBSD firewall?

2008-06-18 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
I didn't find a matching recent thread on misc@ archives... You has done bad search: the archive is full of good references about this topic. Anyway, em(4), bge) or sk(4) are considered the best drivers for their respectives NICs. Personally I use a Supermicro with Intel mobo and Intel gb

Re: motherboard/nics advices for an OpenBSD firewall?

2008-06-17 Thread Kamil Monticolo
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:42:28 -0500 Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really like Dell 1435SC for this kind of stuff. Cheap and fast. > I've a cluster of above 40 machines running OpenBSD on Dell 860 / Dell R200 (faster version of 860). They're really cheap, have gigabit NICs and ru

Re: motherboard/nics advices for an OpenBSD firewall?

2008-06-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
I really like Dell 1435SC for this kind of stuff. Cheap and fast. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:24:28PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't find a matching recent thread on misc@ archives... > > I'm evaluating the possibility of putting a couple of OpenBSD pf/carp > boxen in place of t

motherboard/nics advices for an OpenBSD firewall?

2008-06-17 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Hi, I didn't find a matching recent thread on misc@ archives... I'm evaluating the possibility of putting a couple of OpenBSD pf/carp boxen in place of the crap we currently use as a firewall at my lab. We currently process a traffic which peeks at 30/40Mbits/s over 30mn during most active hours