Grab a Watchguard Firebox X off of ebay, they have 6 interfaces, and you can get them pretty cheap, some of the bigger ones have more, onboard crypto, perfect for building openbsd firewalls... you can run off a CF...
I'm putting together a project that uses openbsd on these boxes. If you have any questions about running openbsd on them let me know: www.thewaffle.org Thanks, Jim On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, phoenixcomm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MartC-n Coco wrote: > > > > Hi misc, > > > > I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that > > should have more than four NICs. > > > > Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC > > limitation. We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition > > to the two-port onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the > > way they work. > > > > I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU > > for what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense > > IPSec traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them > > could have encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't > > know if it works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). > > > > In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs > > (at least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at > > least at ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to > > use trunk, pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. > > > > Thanks, > > Martmn. > > > > > > > Hi Gang, > well heres my 3 cents, > first why use a stupid PC (any os) for routing...... REALY BAD jue,jue > brake > down and buy a old Cisco 7200, 7500, 3600 they are all very good routers, > I > used a 7500 for a while and now use a 3640 > i use pf as a transparent bridge behind my router.. and protects my servers > I have 3 nics, (world, dmz, ssh) > > you could put up a firewall before your router and put everything out one > vlan to the router. > and I have a cisco 2900-xl-en switch with 3 vlans on it... and no > bleeding.. > enjoy > Crazy Cris > :working: > -- > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendation-for-firewalls-%28more-than-4-NI > Cs%29-tp18413703p18899631.html<http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-recommendation-for-firewalls-%28more-than-4-NICs%29-tp18413703p18899631.html> > Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
