Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:11:45 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? Message-ID: <20141113091145.GQ8131@mordor.lan> In-Reply-To: <5463A37C.7080103@bluerosetech.com> References: <CANnsUMFp%2BrQkQbd7j8DPBSFqyB75SAQ_brp8g-NH14Q=RhK=YQ@mail.gmail.com> <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> <5463A37C.7080103@bluerosetech.com>
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--7L9kolmstoDTZ4pm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:14:20AM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > On 11/12/2014 1:21 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:57:02AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > >> I am looking to replace a huge noisy old server that I have used for y= ears > >> for my home business. Looking for something inexpensive and relatively > >> small to replace it with. Any recommendations guys/gals? I was even > >> thinking of buying a used laptop to run FreeBSD on and set it and forg= et > >> it. Not sure what options are out there as I have not put together a > >> server in many years. > > > > we're using a Soekris 6501 here at work as a router/dns cache/proxy/... > > and it works like a charm .. The only problem is that it doesn't boot > > with the default GENERIC kernel (on amd64), due to the lack of an ACPI > > BIOS >=20 > I was looking at those a while back. Do you have the -30, -50, or -70?= =20 > My concern was if it was capable of gigabit line rates with a=20 > real-world packet filter ruleset. What packet and data rates can it do?= =20 > What kind of filtering are you doing? I have a 6501-50 running 10-RELEASE, unbound, pf (with the following ruleset: https://dpaste.de/kw7A/raw), etc We don't have that much traffic, but it works very well for ours (and now that pf is SMP friendly I would say that it should scale.. :)) (BTW I'm writing a little article on the installation) >=20 > I'm excited to see they have a Rangeley product in the pipe. >=20 --=20 Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. --7L9kolmstoDTZ4pm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCgAGBQJUZHXRAAoJEAi2KiTKQR5pNzgP/2KuwCs8KBe2p3qKZXmmVl54 6V87aKYLqKqZQm08ggPGnP3obahmRuVybQvi9Wq9Vf6eQPiMRO+aA1qwyeYEV6/J uMh1bsg7wNMgpsZLeA+4ar7gWzMu46ZDXj7NG8YGvhuZ7FYEHmeWp/td+erusn7l cgxMFoxKB9AdY2fLnb04gPkRqa9IPJE/3iT9M7R4Ik7za9DqAHSxPN0aJYd/uwz9 XvgzesMHGEoHsOuqIh6ZU8E7kYCqiATDWemt8qnTgpFF/GZPiO30S2yiqBuJ9FTM yooYVIboaAOWiKQ77U5f4WJ3E6Q9f0GGxej48lbfOrue2HaO1SUxvZQ2t6pq7ioW 4jAw+BKtCZnmMZRob0mQTsPgQl5ODpilJKA7LYXiFK6HU9QbjqQKnGeK7niHJ97j D5mwokPrGFMdWV3KYkL6imIZ+mALCZQQrTnvQLDUuy+HG3T4YVYS1R83yqrMZhqs kkOZWbXKGOCicZNxCXgV3VMd657Sb1cacO8bhdMCJOnEW1aUFUH4IV6EorQttPoN jCLsWtPW++UB2obC13gAdED1dynspLzcq9ceeHfxlvKzVbhnHCerfJzi0wga+T/S JKHM2vOwNLNUeCxKhhg/jqrYRQbbtw1ZB+HQBPIQMS+di0VQ6QPKi5qNUTpKYc33 abkzxYbw00wSpe4SVGFW =/whi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7L9kolmstoDTZ4pm--
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