[SDBUG] Anyone have a rackmount server laying around?

[Michael J McCafferty]

Ron,
         How many packets/sec or megabits/sec are you sending through 
this thing ? Is this just a home firewall or is it handling some 
production traffic ?
Thanks,
Mike


At 02:21 PM 3/11/2007, you wrote:
>Have you taken a look at pfsense (http://www.pfsense.com). I have it
>running on a server with two drives running raid 1, 2 Gigs of Ram, 1
>100Megbit interface, and three gigabit interfaces. It is a pretty
>sweet setup Below is a few things I have it doing:
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>- Captive portal on one of the interfaces (Airport network plugged
>into here)
>- Snort for detecting bad guys
>- OpenVPN for raod warrior connections
>- IPSEC for connecting networks via tunnels
>- Pfflowd sending data to an internal server running nfsen for
>anomaly detection
>- Spamd to assist the internal mail server with fighting SPAM
>- Traffic shaping to keep traffic under control and allow other app
>the bandwidth when needed.
>
>The above are to just name a few. System has been rock solid since I
>installed it.
>
>-Ron
>
>On Mar 11, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:
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>>Group member hooked me up with a nice DL36.  Now debating Free-
>>(which I know) vs Open- (which I don't).  Probably go with Open-,
>>since it's targeted at stuff like this and a good learning
>>opportunity.
>>
>>Thanks all!
>>
>>KeS
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>>On Mar 9, 2007, at 21:28, Kevin Stevens wrote:
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>>>I'm tired of waiting for Juniper to provide IPv6 code for my
>>>Netscreen GT, so I'm going to build a firewall/router appliance
>>>(with a separate interface for my wireless).  I can get boxes off
>>>of eBay for $100-$150 w/shipping, but if someone has one locally I
>>>can grab this weekend, that would be great.
>>>
>>>Looking for a DL360 type of thing - single or dual 500-1000MHz
>>>CPU, 256-512MB, 9-40GB drives (SCSI or IDE), CDROM.  USB and/or
>>>gigabit would be pluses.  At least one PCI slot for additional
>>>NIC.  Intent is to run FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>Thanks, let me know if you have a good candidate you want to get
>>>rid of!
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