Re: What's good safe PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Many ethernet plugs and 1U rack mount = bonus.

2016-03-03 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Tinker [ti...@openmailbox.org] wrote: > On 2016-02-28 05:26, Karel Gardas wrote: > >Open firmware? What do you mean by that precisely? > > Or just as little firmware as possible, just to minimize that as attack > vector. > > >Anyway, while asking such question it would also help if you tell >

Re: What's good safe PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Many ethernet plugs and 1U rack mount = bonus.

2016-02-28 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2016-02-28, Tinker wrote: >> Open firmware? What do you mean by that precisely? > > Or just as little firmware as possible, just to minimize that as attack > vector. Remember that your brain architecture and firmware isn't open either. Who knows what's hiding there.

Re: What's good safe PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Many ethernet plugs and 1U rack mount = bonus.

2016-02-27 Thread Tinker
On 2016-02-28 05:26, Karel Gardas wrote: Open firmware? What do you mean by that precisely? Or just as little firmware as possible, just to minimize that as attack vector. Anyway, while asking such question it would also help if you tell something about intended usage scenario of such

Re: What's good safe PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Many ethernet plugs and 1U rack mount = bonus.

2016-02-27 Thread Karel Gardas
Open firmware? What do you mean by that precisely? Anyway, while asking such question it would also help if you tell something about intended usage scenario of such box(es). fw?/app server?/storage?/nas? etc. On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Tinker wrote: > Hi! > >

What's good safe PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Many ethernet plugs and 1U rack mount = bonus.

2016-02-27 Thread Tinker
Hi! What's good PPC/MIPS/SPARC networking hardware with open firmware that works well with OpenBSD? Minimalistic for minimizing attack surface. (Many ethernet ports would be a bonus. 1U rack mount would be a bonus. ECC would be a bonus.) Thanks! Tinker