Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-11 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Dear All, > > I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need > some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve > our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, > we

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-10 Thread Hrvoje Popovski
On 10.5.2012 3:28, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Dear All, > > I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need > some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve > our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, > we will have only

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-05-10, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I would like to hear opinion about: > > Dell PowerEdge R210 II Ultra-compact Rack Server These work fine, quite nice machines. > I am looking at the one with > > Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Adapter, Gigabit Ethernet NIC, PCIe x4 I think these are 82576

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-05-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, I am resurrecting this thread which I followed carefully because I need some hardware advice for the firewall machine which is going to serve our new scientific computing laboratory. Initially behind this firewall, we will have only two small (16 and 8 nodes) clusters, a GPU based super

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-04-17, Marcin wrote: > * at least one/preferably two PCI-X slots to add one dual/couple of single > fibre network cards usually PCIE on anything modern > * IPMI 2.0 with out of band management if rs232 isn't enough, you want one with a dedicated nic on a secure management network. > I

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 21:04 CEST, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > > wrote: > > > > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > > I am looking for a hardware recommendati

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > wrote: > > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based > > > firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sevan / Venture37
On 17/04/2012 08:35, Henning Brauer wrote: I'm very happy with Supermicro X9SC* based systems, with Xeon E3-1220 and an Intel SSD. Check with your local supplier for exact model options. Superior performance, 35W idle, no trouble whatsoever, fair pricing. +1 Have a pair of X9SCM-F-O with E31230

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Marcin [2012-04-17 18:11]: > On 17 April 2012 09:35, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > What I am after: > > > * 2 sockets, > > what for? unless you run extremely heavy userland proxies, you don't > > get much (any) benefit, especially given that the one-socket machin

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Marcin
On 17 April 2012 09:35, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > What I am after: > > * 2 sockets, > > what for? unless you run extremely heavy userland proxies, you don't > get much (any) benefit, especially given that the one-socket machines > are all 4core now. > Fair point.

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 12:15 CEST, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > Henning Brauer(lists-open...@bsws.de) on 2012.04.17 11:52:49 +0200: > > > I thought about being able to power cycle the machine when it freezes > > > that hard, when it > > > may not drop into ddb. Otherwise yes, serial console

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Henning Brauer(lists-open...@bsws.de) on 2012.04.17 11:52:49 +0200: > > I thought about being able to power cycle the machine when it freezes that > > hard, when it > > may not drop into ddb. Otherwise yes, serial console would suffice, even > > rebooting from > > within ddb. I hope it may not h

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Sebastian Reitenbach [2012-04-17 11:45]: > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:47 CEST, Henning Brauer > wrote: > > * Sebastian Reitenbach [2012-04-17 10:40]: > > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > > > wrote: > > > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > > > I am looking fo

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:47 CEST, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Sebastian Reitenbach [2012-04-17 10:40]: > > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > > wrote: > > > > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD base

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Sebastian Reitenbach [2012-04-17 10:40]: > On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer > wrote: > > > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based > > > firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336s, but they are slowly > >

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 09:35 CEST, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based > > firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336s, but they are slowly > > approaching end of life. > > > > What I am after: > >

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Marcin [2012-04-17 08:59]: > I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based > firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336s, but they are slowly > approaching end of life. > > What I am after: > * 1U i386/amd64 server, > * 2 sockets, what for? unless you run extremely heavy

Re: Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Eric Oyen
there is a project that you can install an embedded version of openbsd on. its called the routerboard project. no need for power sapping drives, big screens and all that junk. I don't have the site on hand, but it is out there. -eric On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Marcin wrote: > Hello, > > I am

Hardware (firewall) recommendation

2012-04-17 Thread Marcin
Hello, I am looking for a hardware recommendation for a new OpenBSD based firewalls. So far I have been using IBM x336s, but they are slowly approaching end of life. What I am after: * 1U i386/amd64 server, * 2 sockets, * RAID 1 SAS/SATA controller (2 hard drives are enough) * decent dual LAN onb