[TriLUG] using soekris boxes and CF cards (OpenBSD)

Kevin Flanagan kevin at flanagannc.net
Tue Dec 5 19:18:09 EST 2006


At work we are replacing high end Nokia Firewalls with HP Proliant 
servers, same software, much better performance, and faster turnaround 
if you need repairs.

Chris Bullock wrote:
> Was wondering if anyone was using Soekris http://soekris.com hardware to
> do any linux or *bsd deployments.  We are looking to replace our pc based
> firewalls and routers with the Soekris appliances.  Another question is
> how good are CF cards when it comes to reads/writes for log files, this is
> gonna be a firewall/vpn application and there will be constant writes to
> the CF card and don't want failures, since I am replacing spinning disks
> which we all know fail.
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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