On May 15, 2014 2:29:00 AM EDT, Waldemar Brodkorb <m...@waldemar-brodkorb.de> wrote: >Hi OpenBSD hackers, > >At work we have a firewall on two Dell PowerEdge 2940 servers, with >10 NIC's in use, which I want to substiute in the near future. >The second machine act as cold standby. > >I would like to use OpenBSD pf and carp/pfsync to make a ha firewall. > >I further want to use an embedded system to reduce heat and power >consumption in our server room. What hardware would you suggest? > >Would a Soekris net6501-30 with two lan1841 be powerful enough to >route and filter ip traffic for 50 clients in the LAN and 50 servers >in the DMZ with a 300 Mbit uplink? > >Is there any other embedded system supported by OpenBSD with at >least 9 gigabit ethernet network interfaces? > >Any octeon system available? > >Thanks in advance for any suggestion. > >best regards > Waldemar
Err... 10 NICs and Reduce Power & Heat don't usually belong together in the same thought. You may want to consider using a dual-NIC server with VLANs and a 24-port fully managed switch to accomplish the same thing. -Adam -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
