On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 23:39, John Lindblom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think your making a good point here.  I can't find any detailed specs on
> the appliances but these do appear to be small boxes with no disk, cooling
> or power redundancy.

The 57x and 107x are a 1.5GHz Celeron processor with 1GB RAM.

>
> I'm trying to determine what the benefit is going the appliance route but
> not much information to be found.  I would think as far as support is
> concerned, a hardware failure with the appliance would be a next day
> replacement requiring a rebuild.  A hardware failure with an HP server
> wouldn't be as drastic with hardware redundancy, a rebuild would probably
> never need to be done.

Something along those lines. If you can, go with a server. If you're
running VMWare, you can try to install the firewall inside a VM and be
done with it.

>
> One draw back to the HP server is not having the ability to run the HP
> management agents for hardware failure notification.  Right now the only
> way I know of at this point is to look at the server to see hardware has
> failed. Unless I'm missing something.

If you can get RPMs for RHEL 5 32bit, you might try to install them
and see if they work.


Eugeniu

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