On 2007/11/12 12:56, knitti wrote:
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> > Looking to manage several webservers I am wondering if anybody uses
> > something like this: http://soekris.kd85.com/images/tn/dsc03600.med.jpg ?
> > (That image shows Wim's net4801-50 plus quadport lan1641 firewall box,
> > giving 7 ports with low powerconsumption - on OpenBSD)

what sort of bandwidth / packets per second?

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> > The standard choice in my datacenter (linux users mostly) seems to be HP
> > Procurve but I'd prefer the power of PF.

they're most likely switches. (Vantronix have a module for HP 5300xl
switches that runs PF, though).

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> I don't know exactly the 4801, but I use a couple of 4501 as firewalls and
> IPSec-Routers for connections of up to 5 MBit/sec. Seeing the specs of
> the 4801 and knowing the 4501, I wouldn't use them for more than about
> 40-50 Mbit/sec.

I feel 40-50M would be pushing it, given that you might like some
overhead to allow for occasional heavy numbers of packets. 5501
might do better (maybe with a nic rather than the on-board vr).

I'd normally prefer a standard amd64/i386 box for a datacentre
firewall though. I may change my mind when the net7501 eventually
surfaces...