David Newman wrote:
I was just about to ask about this. I've been very happy with Nexcom
1563s as pf firewalls, especially with the disk-on-chip. No moving parts
is good. (And thanks misc@ for this recommendation.)
But the Nexcoms have only 100Base-T interfaces and now I've got a
requirement for gig boxes in a couple of data centers.
Any recommendations for carp/pfsync hardware with these specs on each box?
- - at least 3 x 1000Base-T (mandatory)
- - disk on chip if possible (not mandatory)
- - fanless (not mandatory)
- - rack-mountable (not manadatory)
Any reasonable RAM and CPU speed considered, in the context of pushing
traffic at ~100-300 Mbit/s.
Or am I better off just buying el cheapo PCs and relying on carp and
pfsync for redundancy?
I have been very pleased with my FWA-9106 from iBASE.
http://www.ibt.ca/v2/items/fwa9106/index.html
Mine have P4 CPU at 3.2GHz and 1GB of DDR400 (can take up to 4GB)
NICs are 4 msk (Marvell 8053) and 2 em (Intel 82541) interfaces.
There is also two PCI slots at the back and I believe a third at the front.
/Jason
