Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-25 Thread ropers
The way you use that === in your graphic, even with the explanatory comment, is hella confusing. I think I got what you mean: That's where it goes, but it goes there via the carp geodes, not via any direct connection. But even if I did now understand that correctly (which I'm not entirely sure

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-25 Thread David Diggles
Oh it just means the standalone geode redirects all inbound connections from the internet, to the Pentium 4. The other pair of carp geodes protect the office subnet, and the Pentium 4 does not have ip forwarding, but acts as a squid cache etc. Any suggestions for improvement? Is there a

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-24 Thread David Diggles
Looks decent, but I'm looking for something fanless to replace the 3 fanless geodes currently in use. To put it all in better context, here is the current setup: [ denotes default inbound redirection of trafic, dmz server ] internet+OpenBSD---+ (30/1M pppoe)--| geode 300Mhz

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-24 Thread David Diggles
Anyway I have decided on this: Atom 1.8GHz, 3 x Intel 82583V Gigabit NICs. http://www.commell.com.tw/product/SBC/LE-376.HTM 3 of them, to replace the geodes. I have an 8 core Xeon to replace the Pentium 4 with also. Then I certainly should get the 100Mbps throughput and not need to upgrade

HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-23 Thread David Diggles
I have been googling around for HW upgrade options for my OpenBSD routers for my home setup. I have a pair of routers, running carp ip load balancing on the LAN segments, failover on the WAN. Consideration: Upgrade from 300mhz geode, 100Mbs rl NICs (does 1.2MB/s max and therefore no longer up

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-23 Thread David Diggles
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:49:28PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: I have a pair of routers, running carp ip load balancing on the LAN segments, failover on the WAN. What am I thinking here. Can't really mix load balance and failover in this way. Current setup has 3 geodes, 1 is for WAN and the

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-23 Thread Jiri B
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:49:28PM +1000, David Diggles wrote: I have been googling around for HW upgrade options for my OpenBSD routers for my home setup. I have a pair of routers, running carp ip load balancing on the LAN segments, failover on the WAN. Consideration: Upgrade from

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-23 Thread Michel Blais
I have a Jetway NC9C-550 in production with 5.0 that can do 100 Mb/s without any problem. It's cheep and if you need more than 2 nic, you can add 3 other (intel or realtek) via daughterboard. http://www.logicsupply.com/products/nc9c_550_lf Le 2012-05-23 10:05, David Diggles a icrit : On Wed,

Re: HW upgrade options, opinions please?

2012-05-23 Thread Justin Jereza
I'm not expert here but atoms from supermicro are nice, you get IPMI too. Also henning@ said good words about it :) I second this. Been using two http://www.supermicro.com.tw/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-EHF-D525.cfm for the past 8 months now for load balancing, LACP, VLANs, failover, and