[CentOS] Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.netFri Aug 5 09:34:32 UTC 2005
- Previous message: Bryan being a dartboard was Re: [CentOS] Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
- Next message: [CentOS] Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Harald Finnås wrote: > > Not really a CentOS specific question, but I hope it's ok... > > I've decided to buy a server to use as a firewall/router instead of the > usual Cisco box, simply because I've come to love Firewall Builder and > would like to put all my subnets into one firewall. There will be four > gigabit interfaces in the box, one of which will be the internet > connection (so this one interface will use max. 10 mbit). > > Question is if any "normal" hardware will be able to handle this if most > of the interfaces gets saturated? What chipset / motherboard should I go > for? Uber I/O? Something like an Opteron-based motherboard that has plenty of HyperTransport interconnects which only seem to belong to Sun or HP boxes as Bryan has helpfully pointed a while ago. Tyan boards being the next closest thing.
- Previous message: Bryan being a dartboard was Re: [CentOS] Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
- Next message: [CentOS] Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
More information about the CentOS mailing list