Hi, Adam Thompson wrote, > 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. > > Err... 10 NICs and Reduce Power & Heat don't usually belong together in the > same thought.
I do not agree here. The Dell servers have two redundant power supplies with 400 watt each. The soekris board uses only 40 watt power supplies. > You may want to consider using a dual-NIC server with VLANs and a 24-port > fully > managed switch to accomplish the same thing. We already have two 48 port HP5500 managed switches with IRF configured. The firewall uses two nics configured as trunking/bonding with LACP for three networks. I don't think the performance would be good if I transfer all the ip traffic over a dual port system with one VLAN trunking port on the internal network. best regards Waldemar
