Well long story short, we had to use the firewalls, we have 2 working in failover, to secure internal Corporate data to meet Fed Requirements. We had looked at purchasing additional Sonicwalls for this task. We have 2 sonicwall 5060's that are our corporate firewalls. (purchased before my time). I convince the higher ups to give pfsense a chance. We are a Dell shop using 2850's and 6850's exclusively to a tune of about 120 servers. We decided to order 2 dual core AMD whiteboxes for the firewalls and because of our implantation we needed 6 nics per. Well the person that did the ordering did not realize that the whiteboxes did not have the pci ports required for the Intel 4 port nic, so we just happened to have 8 2850's setting on 2 pallets in their boxes... so I grabbed 2 of those. Overkill Yes, but they work, and as long as I do not SSH into them the CPU sets around 2% utilization. Seems when I start SSH'ing though I drop to about 50% and system becomes unresponsive and requires a reboot to clear up.
Regards There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can read binary, and those who cannot. -----Original Message----- From: Jeroen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] PFSense + Poweredge On 6/28/06, Scott Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to add to this, I just installed PFSense on 2 PE 2850's each with 6 > 10/100/1000 Interfaces 2GB RAM and 2X250GB Sata Harddrives using Dell's > Hardware raid. Using RC1 all is well. Just curious, what are you empowering with this kind of hardware? And why use 250GB, on a firewall? -- Jeroen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is only intended for the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person without the consent of the sender. Unless expressly stated herein to the contrary, only agreements in writing, signed by an authorized officer of the Company, may be enforced against it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
