Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-26 Thread Henning Brauer
* James Peltier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-24 23:40]: > We're only pushing about 50-60M during peak times my guess is <15% CPU on the cheapest new 1U server you can buy today. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Host

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, FRLinux wrote: Hey, was not trying to push your buttons, just wondering. Steph You didn't, just trying to get the OP to describe what they're trying to fix. FWIW, Stuart had what I was looking for, but I expected him to know what he was talking about. diana

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread FRLinux
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone been around for awhile would recognise I'm a long time OpenBSD > proponent. However my day job entails quite a bit of CLI time on > heavy Cisco, Foundry, Juniper, blah, blah, gear. This stuff is > purpose bul

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread Diana Eichert
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, FRLinux wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, really, what nut are you trying to crack? Hello, There are many reasons why someone might actually look at replacing such a setup, I would vote in favor of : unmanageable and sup

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-25, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm your manager, I'm going to ask you, "Why"? Is the 6506 not working? > If you were building a new setup I'd be more agreeable, but it sounds > like you have a working setup. > > So, really, what nut are you trying to crack? one possible

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread FRLinux
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, really, what nut are you trying to crack? Hello, There are many reasons why someone might actually look at replacing such a setup, I would vote in favor of : unmanageable and support is out anyway, so let's move it to

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-25 Thread Diana Eichert
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jason Dixon wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:29:24PM -0800, James Peltier wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine serving a university network. The current Cisco setup is basically providing routing and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-24 Thread Vijay Sankar
Quoting James Peltier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi All, I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine serving a university network. The current Cisco setup is basically providing routing and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve switches with some basic firewall services. I'd like to look

Re: Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:29:24PM -0800, James Peltier wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine serving a > university network. The current Cisco setup is basically providing routing > and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve switches with some basic firewal

Replacing a Cisco 6506 with OpenBSD

2008-11-24 Thread James Peltier
Hi All, I'm looking at replacing a Cisco 6506 with an OpenBSD machine serving a university network. The current Cisco setup is basically providing routing and VLAN trunks to our HP ProCurve switches with some basic firewall services. I'd like to look at replacing it with an OpenBSD based solu