From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 20:38:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9B716A4DA for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:38:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BFF43D49 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:38:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jsimola@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so71882ugf for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:38:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hmDb5KZWBfLQDiWSrOrezk8VSht/3p8V1J2JUhzROadVl3jLvg4wloj0v3xLEIKwPjRQEsdMr98sHouZNtktThYxMYnaK8n2zbaAkVjp9oFcafto/gZssGfwYkXfwbUxsIZWwoXmaKt2xS7iBMPMsXn2YAHZix6tZcOMMfyulwA= Received: by 10.78.179.12 with SMTP id b12mr1119793huf; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.196.19 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8eea04080607171338j7f04dbcbuccf53f1070d02fe2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:38:38 -0700 From: "Jon Simola" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: Server Hardware Recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:38:40 -0000 On 7/17/06, Matt Ruzicka wrote: > My company has been purchasing almost exclusively Supermicro SuperServers > for our production FreeBSD server hardware for that last four years or so. > Over all I'd say we've been quite happy with Supermicro from a product > stand point, but recently we've been dealing with some odd hardware > issues. All of my Supermicro problems have been solved with BIOS upgrades. I've run across a few versions that were rather odd about SATA drives and the BIOS hanging during probes (P4SCE v1.2B, problems fixed with 1.2C). > I was wondering what others are using for production FreeBSD server > hardware. I'm most interested to see what manufacturers seem to be rock > solid from a hardware and FreeBSD interaction perspective and also have > solid support for those issues that come up from time to time. I have had nothing but great experiences with Tyan. They also have a few interesting options that I've been looking at for security/firewall appliances, such as their http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trophy_nr16.html with 4 GigE copper and 4 Fiber interfaces. -- Jon