Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Joshua Smith
i don't do pf/carp on them, but ibm x3550's are awesome general purpose servers and I do not see why they would not be excellent pf boxes. On Dec 7, 2007 2:13 PM, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 15:54]: > > > Does anyone have recommendations

Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 12/7/07, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run an awful lot of simple pairs of Dell Rackmounted servers. (as > well as hp, ibm. etc.) I've done this with dell 950's, 1650, 1750, > 1850, and 1435's - lately I buy 1435's... Awesome, we actually have two spare 1435s that we decided

Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Beck
* Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 15:54]: > Does anyone have recommendations on server hardware for setting up a > redundant OpenBSD firewall? Right now our network handles several > million HTTP requests per day, and we expect that to continue growing. > I expect a simple pair of