On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:19:07PM -0400, stan wrote: > I'm considering purchasing a Sun X2100 to use a an OpenBSD based firewall. > > Any hardware issues I should be aware of? > > What have been peoples experince with these (or similar) machines?
Although it's not directly OpenBSD related, you'll probably want to flash the BIOS with the latest version, as Sun still seem to be shipping machines with the comically broken first version of the BIOS. Just to give you an idea of how bad it is: USB keyboards don't work reliably (and this is a machine without a PS/2 slot don't forget), and at least one BIOS screen says something like "press Shift-F1" but misses the "f" in "shift". Quality control were probably having an off day. Mercifully the BIOS update you can get from SUN is installable in an OS independent fashion, and after that the machine (and OpenBSD) seem to run fine. Laurie -- http://tratt.net/laurie/ -- Personal http://convergepl.org/ -- The Converge programming language http://sosym.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/ -- Software and Systems Modelling Team http://modelsconference.org/ -- MoDELS/UML 2006 conference
