From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 7: 1:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221C41534E for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 07:01:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heiphetz@cvzoom.net) Received: from night_flight (lc150.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.150]) by ns.cvzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08716; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990526100019.00920c20@cvzoom.net> X-Sender: heiphetz@cvzoom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:00:19 -0400 To: Juergen Nickelsen , Graeme Tait From: Alex Heiphetz Subject: Re: 100% dependability/failsafe/security/hardware Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <544719.3136671996@ockholm.jn.berlin.snafu.de> References: <374AC435.15C6C178@echidna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to all who replied to my original post. Please, see below.... At 01:46 AM 5/26/99 +0200, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: >--On Die, 25. Mai 1999 11:39 -0400 Graeme Tait >wrote: >The goal should be, as you said, "acceptable downtime". That's part of the question. What would be "acceptable downtime" for a financial service that, say, processes credit cards for other web sites in real time? Honestly, I don't know. What are failsafe requirements for this type of service? I probably should have mentioned it beforehand, but that's what I'm looking for. Also, nobody mentioned another part of the question: "brand-name" firewall software vs. ipfw. I know ipfw, but have no idea what "brand-name" firewall software offer that would assure better security. Also, any recommendations on RAID manufacturers? Juergen Nickelsen in his first post mentioned that FreeBSD won't run on that fantastic computer in the weather center. What do they run? I have experience with SCO, HP-UX, Sun and Linux :-) and I won't say that any of those is more robust or secure than FreeBSD (given equal hardware "horsepower"). Thanks, I do appreciate your advice. A.Heiphetz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message