slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
I've been asked to hunt for hardware that meets roughly these specs: * preferably in a 1u, space for two autonomous machines with as many Ethernet interfaces as will physically fit the form factor * Gigabit capable Anything else is really just a bonus, 'works with OpenBSD' is a must, onboard

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread Dag Richards
HP DL360G5 we have 5 of these that we use with 4 port bge cards as vpn servers and firewall. Running or have run 4.3 4.4 4.5 HW Raid controller I like the lights out management cards on the older ones ( G3 ) better as they just give you a screen scrape console. The G5 does something

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread Peter van Oord van der Vlies
The HP DL360 works very well. We are running more then 40 of those systems for more then 5 years now. I have tried some DL320 but they are not that fast as the 360's and i don't like ATA/SATA . On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: I've been asked to hunt for hardware that meets

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread tico
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: I've been asked to hunt for hardware that meets roughly these specs: * preferably in a 1u, space for two autonomous machines with as many Ethernet interfaces as will physically fit the form factor * Gigabit capable Here's a 1U with 4x gigE + 4x FE. I haven't

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-06-15, tico tico-o...@raapid.net wrote: Also, if you want to cram two boxes in 1U and still have a decent number of NICs, check out ABMX: http://www.abmx.com/1u-twin-server those are supermicro machines. they also have short-depth boxes with front i/o you may be able to mount

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread tico
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-06-15, tico tico-o...@raapid.net wrote: Also, if you want to cram two boxes in 1U and still have a decent number of NICs, check out ABMX: http://www.abmx.com/1u-twin-server those are supermicro machines. Correct. I should have specified that. they

Re: slim and capable hardware for firewalls use

2009-06-15 Thread Steve B
Casetronic makes a 1U rackmount chassis that will hold two mini-ITX BOARDS. Take a look at their website - http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=16. I believe you can buy these from either logicsupply.com or mini-box.com. You could put a pair of boards in there powered by a pair of