Hello, misc.
I'm choosing firewall/proxy/mail-gateway hardware running (of course)
OpenBSD for medium office and my shortlist is:
(a) HP ProLiant DL320 and (b) Sun Fire V125
Price for both servers is more or less close.
Personally I'd prefer to buy Sun, just for opportunity to play with
non-i386 arch :) but according to http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html:
"Sun refused access to the neccessary documentation for the (very
bizzare) host bridge in the UltraSPARC III machines, so a few years were
lost before some reverse engineering figured out the changes in these
machines. OpenBSD 4.0 has thus been the first release to ship with
support for the UltraSPARC III based machines.
And since there are always little bits missing, work is continuing..."
This confusing me a bit. Does OpenBSD/sparc64 performs well? I need to
run pf, squid, postfix, amavisd-new, spamassassin, clamav - will this
work on Sun as good as on my current intel-based-office-pc-router?
Which one's hardware better supported? Internal NIC's, SCSI
(Sun)/SATA(HP) controllers?
I'd like to hear from people who use these machines in production -
what's good, what's bad, what's evil.
And if you had to choose - what would be your choice today?
Thanks for attention.
--
Yuri A. Spirin
Volgograd Mechanical Engineering Company "VgTZ"
Systems Administrator
