On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 05:43:39PM +1100, nuffnough wrote: > Hey there. > > My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to > replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more > than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots > anymore I am struggling to get these under $2800. > > I have requirements for 6 legs plus the carp sync (which I could do > with a usb nowadays, so that means just 6). The rest of the system > is relatively undemanding, so 4 gig RAM is overkill, and it doesn't > require huge CPU grunt either. It would be great if I could fit it > into a small formfactor case to save rackspace, but this isn't worth > $2k to me. > > Please recommend mobo/NIC combo that would fit within the budget! Any server, some extra gigabit cards and a good manageable switch. That will take an extra rack unit but should fit in $1500. With the small (depth-wise) supermicro servers it might actually fit in 1U but that's a bit hack-ish.
-- Jussi Peltola
