Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-03 Thread VP
If you can live w/o RAID, i recommend advantech.com or nexcom.com Network Security Appliance product lines. Appliance is not very good solution for us. We want buy one good server. Also I find no sense of CARP, because we will have old server as standby. IDS database will be placed on another

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-03 Thread Richard Toohey
So don't buy an over-the-top firewall ... and donate the difference to OpenBSD? 8-) On 3/11/2007, at 9:25 PM, VP wrote: If you can live w/o RAID, i recommend advantech.com or nexcom.com Network Security Appliance product lines. Appliance is not very good solution for us. We want buy one

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/03 00:20, VP wrote: It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't officially support OpenBSD with their hardware. We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI disks and 2 power supply. Does anyone recommend brand server which supports OpenBSD? (in alphabetical order):

OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread VP
Hello! I have a network with 100 users and 7 servers and current firewall need to be replaced. I want to by brand server due to company policy. It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't officially support OpenBSD with their hardware. We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 00:20 +0300, VP wrote: Hello! I have a network with 100 users and 7 servers and current firewall need to be replaced. I want to by brand server due to company policy. Brand as in put your company name on the hardware It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread VP
It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't officially support OpenBSD with their hardware. We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI disks and 2 power supply. Does anyone recommend brand server which supports For a _firewall_ ?! Are you sure you don't want something more

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/11/2, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI disks and 2 power supply. Does anyone recommend brand server which supports OpenBSD? You don't need one computer with two discs and two psus; instead get two systems and use carp to get HA. Also 2GB

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Martin Schrvder wrote: You don't need one computer with two discs and two psus; instead get two systems and use carp to get HA. Also 2GB for a firewall is overkill. Spend the money on the NICs instead. If he's going to be doing local processing of pcap(4) data into some

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
If he's going to be doing local processing of pcap(4) data into some pcap(3), of course, is what I meant :}

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 00:42 +0300, VP wrote: It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't officially support OpenBSD with their hardware. We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI disks and 2 power supply. Does anyone recommend brand server which supports For a

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 hardware recommendation

2007-11-02 Thread Jake Conk
Use a e-machine :) lol On 11/2/07, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 00:42 +0300, VP wrote: It can be SPARC or x86. But vendors don't officially support OpenBSD with their hardware. We need tower server with 1 proccessor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 SCSI