On 9/6/05, Stephan A. Rickauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to mention that upgrades with other OS's are even painful _with_ HA > setup ... > > As an Insitute we have limited resources in terms of personal AND money. > Therefore, I am forced to rethink any strategy twice. Thanks to all > comments - had been very helpful so far.
I'm responsible for 4 different OpenBSD-based firewalls and 4 different customers. One locations is carp+pfsync based one with two machines. Last week I upgraded one of the customers to a new release and it took me a total of 30 minutes on-site work. 15 of those were trying to access the firewall in the cramped server room ;-). With planning and an extra set of backups it took me about 1 hour of worktime. This should be able to fit within most limited budgets :-). Once you learn the OpenBSD mindset it is easier to install, upgrade and maintain than most other package based systems. I would say that is it faster to upgrade an OpenBSD box from one release to another compared to Debian (with their wonderful apt-get/dpkg system). The reason is that OpenBSD installations are usually much smaller and leaner and you don't have to download 500MB+ to get a working system. cheers, Nickus
