On 12/5/06, Chris Bullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Was wondering if anyone was using Soekris http://soekris.com hardware to do any linux or *bsd deployments. We are looking to replace our pc based firewalls and routers with the Soekris appliances. Another question is how good are CF cards when it comes to reads/writes for log files, this is gonna be a firewall/vpn application and there will be constant writes to the CF card and don't want failures, since I am replacing spinning disks which we all know fail. Regards, Chris
Be very, very careful. We deployed two CARP'd Soekrii in our production environment (pushing an average of 25MBit/s, spiking to 70MBit/s) and the low bus bandwidth killed us. They're nifty little boxes, they just have very little capacity. A fair warning. We're actually replacing our two Sokeris routers with Dell Poweredge servers running openbsd -- the failover of CARP mitigates the fear of failure of the servers -- I'd rather replace a Dell in an emergency than to deal with the overloaded router issues I've been having over the last month. -- Jason Faulkner http://oldos.org -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
