i don't do pf/carp on them, but ibm x3550's are awesome general
purpose servers and I do not see why they would not be excellent pf
boxes.
On Dec 7, 2007 2:13 PM, Bob Beck <beck@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> wrote:
quoted text > * Matthew Dempsky <matthew@dempsky.org> [2007-12-06 15:54]:
>
> > Does anyone have recommendations on server hardware for setting up a
> > redundant OpenBSD firewall? Right now our network handles several
> > million HTTP requests per day, and we expect that to continue growing.
> > I expect a simple pair of Dell rackmounted servers should handle this
> > easily, but I thought I'd solicit feedback from the firewall experts
> > on misc@ first. :-)
>
> I run an awful lot of simple pairs of Dell Rackmounted servers. (as
> well as hp, ibm. etc.) I've done this with dell 950's, 1650, 1750,
> 1850, and 1435's - lately I buy 1435's...
>
> So I'd be in agreement on that one.
>
> -Bob
