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CreeD
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« on: Tuesday 11 December 2007, 08:15:41 am »

What would you recommend for hardware..? My costumers has 10-80 employees, and all are useing the internet and sometimes VPN, when out of the office. Antivirus, IDP and antispam are turned on. Is a 1Ghz VIA C7 or a AMD Geode LX-800 enough, or do I need to move into a real desktop CPU?

I am very much considering useing one of these boxes: (Mainly #2)
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11518
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11713

Thanks
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 14 December 2007, 03:03:45 am »

Ok, this forum is really dead...
Is there anywhere else to get support for endian?
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CreeD
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« Reply #2 on: Monday 17 December 2007, 08:53:09 pm »

No one..?
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« Reply #3 on: Monday 31 December 2007, 06:36:16 am »

Just something.... Sad
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« Reply #4 on: Monday 31 December 2007, 06:44:03 am »

Don't know if the hardware is supported.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 01 January 2008, 01:26:44 am »

Not sure where you are located but here in the U.S. I tend to use SuperMicro stuff.  Here is a link to what and where I've bought before:

http://www.antonline.com/custom_PROMETHEUS-2125-_198.htm

This uses SuperMicro's PDSMA+ motherboard.  Some may say this is overkill, but I don't think the price is that bad and it keeps my phone from ringing.  But I up the CPU to dual core and purchase an extra hard drive to take advantage of the built in software raid 1 (courtesy of mdadm - works like a charm).  I run these with Endian 2.1.2. 

So in summary this provides your customer with Redundant (hotswappable power supplies) and Redundant hotswappable disks via raid 1.  You can even use Nagios to monitor your endian along with the software raid 1 (I've seen a nagios plugin that monitors mdadm raids).  So this allows you be proactive instead of reactive to hardware problems, etc....
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 09 January 2008, 06:50:47 pm »

I can understand the thing with 2 HD´s... I will find a system that can hold 2 HDs.
But why Dual Core Cpu´s?
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 10 January 2008, 01:42:33 pm »

I have noticed top running high (using every bit of the CPU) when clam is scanning (via havp).  Try downloading a few files and see for yourself.  It is just my preference since these are relatively .
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« Reply #8 on: Monday 14 January 2008, 12:34:13 am »

I can understand the thing with 2 HD´s... I will find a system that can hold 2 HDs.
But why Dual Core Cpu´s?

Most ppl will use endianfw in a production environment, since offices will grow eventually and ppl demand more of their [broadband]connectioin it is wise to use a heavier system from the start.

@euser4life

I have noticed this when havp is useing both my cpu's @100% endian doesn't forward the traffic anymore.
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« Reply #9 on: Monday 17 March 2008, 06:57:33 am »

What would you recommend for hardware..? My costumers has 10-80 employees, and all are useing the internet and sometimes VPN, when out of the office. Antivirus, IDP and antispam are turned on. Is a 1Ghz VIA C7 or a AMD Geode LX-800 enough, or do I need to move into a real desktop CPU?

I tried on a VIA C7, but the performance was bad.

I suggest you to go with AMD Geode with 512MB RAM, If size is not an issue, then I would go for a Intel or AMD based decent desktop machine.
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 29 March 2008, 06:01:38 am »

Ok, this forum is really dead...
Is there anywhere else to get support for endian?

There are mailing lists. Though I've never liked mailing lists. You probably already found this link but in case you didn't here you go.
http://www.endian.com/en/community/help/mailinglists/

It's dead around here because there are only 300 members. Who knows how many are linux experts let alone firewall, iptables, router experts. 
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