On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Dear All, > > I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need > some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve > our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, > we will have only two small (16 and 8 nodes) clusters, a GPU based super > computer, a CVS/File server and a web-server for PMWiki. They will be > accessible to users (15-20 for now) only via SSH(NX X) and HTTP > protocols. > > We are vendor locked due to the contract between DeLL and the University > system of Georgia. > > I would like to hear opinion about: > > Dell PowerEdge R210 II Ultra-compact Rack Server > > http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r210-2/pd > > I am looking at the one with > > Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Adapter, Gigabit Ethernet NIC, PCIe x4 > > Does One Dual port Broadcom BCM 5716 work on OpenBSD? > What about those Broadcom NetXtremes ? It is not going to > have RAID controller. We are looking at the one with Dual-core Intel > Celeron G400 and G500 series > > > Thank you so much! > > Predrag > > Watch out for onboard bios/firmare of the two native gigabit nics (bnx): anything below 1.3 will cause abundant data loss on at least one of the two... the early bioses were severely buggy!!!
