Re: *bsd firewall appliance?
- From: DW <spock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:30:48 -0400
Danial Thom wrote:
You clowns with your diskless servers just crackMy motives have nothing to do with reliability; I am not philosophically opposed to disks or moving parts. I'm just reaching the point more often lately where I'm looking at:
me up. Everyone brags about their years of uptime
on their servers, yet you just can't put up a
firewall or router without a disk. What, are you
still using mfm drives or something?
1) Form factor (there are organizations where real estate holds almost as much premium as department funds).
2) Heat output (I just had 2 more 2-ton mini-split A.C. units installed -- that'll hold me for a while, but at the rate we're expanding, I don't want to be faced with a situation again where I'm looking at a box doing a small job like running BIND spitting out 1,000 BTU's/hour)
3) Power consumption (why draw more than necessary?)
It seems that more and more my bottlenecks have nothing to do with performance or reliability, but rather physical facility management. It all adds up.
--- DW <spock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Philippe Lang wrote:http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:and my crazy thought of
Hi all,
Just doing some early morning brainstorming,
just get rid of mythe day is this:
My life would be so much easier if I could
I know and love:stupid PIX firewalls, and replace them what
causing meFreeBSD. It's not that the PIX's have been
that I believe inproblems or anything like that, it's just
we've alreadystreamlining whenever possible, and since
at least 3exterminated Microsoft in my server room for
running FreeBSD are myyears, the only thing left that's not
leftover legacyappliances (firewalls and switches) and 2
been worth theservers still running Redhat that haven't
shop, and I caneffort to migrate to FreeBSD. I'm a one-man
but would just assurvive using the PIX IOS when I have to,
it if I couldsoon use BSD if I could. Questions:
1) If I did this, I would probably only do
servers to my 2-postfigure out how to rack up some diskless
hardware candidates, etc.?communications rack. Any thoughts on
go with OpenBSD2) If I did this, maybe it would be wiser to
diskless servers forinstead, since it is known for security?
3) Any good tutorials on setting up a
keep my PIX'sFree/OpenBSD?
4) Any other considerations?
5) Am I just being stupid and should I just
don't fix it.going? I know, I know, if it ain't broke,
look at http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/.Hi,
Maybe a good start for you would be to have a
WOW!!!!!! This is exactly what I was looking
for and more! Can't wait to start trying it out! Thanks!
Cheers,_______________________________________________
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