Thanks!
Have you tried the quad nics on those Dells? We do have a couple of
R200s, 860s and 850s running with 2 dual port cards no problem, but we
have never tried the quad ports.
Torsten Frost escribis:
quoted text > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco
> <ml-openbsd-misc@mcoco.com.ar> wrote:
>> Hi misc,
>>
>> I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should
>> have more than four NICs.
>>
>> Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC limitation.
>> We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the two-port
>> onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the way they work.
>>
>> I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU for
>> what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense IPSec
>> traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them could have
>> encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't know if it
>> works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate).
>>
>> In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs (at
>> least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at least at
>> ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to use trunk,
>> pfsync, real network interfaces, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martmn.
>>
>>
>
>
> We run a pair of dell 1950s and have been generally happy with them.
>
> We run one dual port intel card and the two build in ports, no
> problem pushing about
> 400mbit. The intel cards have worked ok for us for years now in
> various versions.
>
> You can configure the box with two dual nics or two quad nics on the dell
> web.
