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hardware recommendations
I have finally convinced my work to switch to openbsd and I need to recommend some hardware for the server. These are the processors I have picked out so far.
E5-2609 v2 80w 2.5 ghz 4 core 10mb cache Atom c2758 20w 2.4 ghz 8 cores 4mb cache This server, if I can prove it will work, will be the main firewall for the company of about 500 employees. Web/api server farm.( load balancing and carp will be needed) Please give me feedback on the hardware and some ideas of if this setup is within openbsd pf capabilities. Thanks in advance |
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If you don't need ECC memory support or specialty server hardware, I'd recommend a fast i3 chip. Spend the extra money on some good NICs.
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Given the NSA's current press to exploit ALL possible security holes, and unlimited funding to do so, one ought to consider what can/should be done about these issues. @OP I have a Gigabyte Brix with an AMD quad-core chipset running OpenBSD 5.5 just peachy! 256GB SSD hard drive and 2 TB external drive on USB 3.0 works well . |
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Plus, the open-source graphics stack, power management, and single-threaded performance pretty much blows AMD away. It'll be interesting to see where AMD goes with their ARM offering in the future. |
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@OP I just noticed your post. You are just throwing your money because as someone observer OpenBSD PF can't take advantage of multi core. I would also like to add that multi core benefits are debatable as OpenBSD PF is circa 4 times faster than FreeBSD PF version optimized for multi core as Henning Brouer explained in this thread http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=140481161526390&w=2 It is also interesting to note that PF probably has no future at least on FreeBSD (finally an interesting thread on questions@freebsd) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ly/007391.html which was clear to many of us who flee FreeBSD long time ago. As of hardware recommendation I have great experience with the one I listed in this thread http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139139524604521&w=2 If your network is 10 gigabyte capable I would invest in the really high end network card. Last edited by Oko; 1st September 2014 at 01:57 AM. |
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I recomend to spend some time on reading this blog: http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/ For example http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.c...09-slides.html So, the "Ring -3 Rootkit" presentation is about vPro/AMT chipset compromises. Unfortunately currently BIOS/UEFI and other forms of firmware example AMT: 1. Are vulnerable to attacks 2. Do a lot of things 3. Have high privileges This is issue in PC world. Now this could be also in ARMv8 microservers world, because new (not yet published) specification is going to include mandatory ACPI and UEFI, instead of todays simple firmware with device trees. (Yes, these simple firmwares are buggy too and properietary, but there can be written simple, secure open code instead). Last edited by e1-531g; 23rd August 2014 at 09:55 PM. Reason: Added valuable text |
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If you are interested in topic, you can also read:
http://www.mitre.org/sites/default/f...escalation.pdf |
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