Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:42:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: DW <spock@dwinner.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: *bsd firewall appliance? Message-ID: <20060713144202.62478.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44B64B08.8080405@dwinner.net>
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--- DW <spock@dwinner.net> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > You clowns with your diskless servers just > crack > > me up. Everyone brags about their years of > uptime > > on their servers, yet you just can't put up a > > firewall or router without a disk. What, are > you > > still using mfm drives or something? > > > My motives have nothing to do with reliability; > I am not philosophically > opposed to disks or moving parts. I'm just > reaching the point more often > lately where I'm looking at: > > 1) Form factor (there are organizations where > real estate holds almost > as much premium as department funds). > > 2) Heat output (I just had 2 more 2-ton > mini-split A.C. units installed > -- that'll hold me for a while, but at the rate > we're expanding, I don't > want to be faced with a situation again where > I'm looking at a box doing > a small job like running BIND spitting out > 1,000 BTU's/hour) > > 3) Power consumption (why draw more than > necessary?) > > It seems that more and more my bottlenecks have > nothing to do with > performance or reliability, but rather physical > facility management. It > all adds up. Interesting that you have all of these practical issues, yet you want to do something totally impractical, such as replace your pix with a freebsd box. Why not use one of your existing freebsd servers as a firewall? then you have zero additional real estate or power consumption. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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