[geeks] Firewalls...

[Clay Mellender]

I want to run a 32 processor server with ANYTHING I can get!!!!
Clay

Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> It is, but that isn't supported in any of the standard consumer and low end
> commercial chipsets.
> 
> In order to get mutiple PCI busses you need one of the highly parallel
> chipsets that were developed for large scale SMP servers on intel. The
> smallest one I've seen with multiple PCI busses was an 8 way with 2 busses.
> 
> These things are INCREDIBLY expensive, and you dont get a lot of bang for
> your buck. I mean who wants to run a 32 processor server with NT (generally
> the only OS these large scale platforms support)
> 
> Chris Byrne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Joshua D. Boyd
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 21:55
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [geeks] Firewalls...
> 
> Err, meant to say multiple pci buses.  My head isn't screwed on quite
> straight today.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Can't one get PC motherboards with multiple PCI slots.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
> >
> > > David,
> > >
> > > As long as you don't put more than 5 pci cards in you are generally OK.
> Some
> > > motherboards can handle six reliably, some cant. Of course it depends on
> > > your MoBo and the overall composition of your hardware and software.
> > >
> > > That's the thing about PC hardware that makes it so difficult to
> properly
> > > support. There are so many variables, different configuations of
> hardware
> > > and software etc... that knowing all of the possible issues is
> essentially
> > > impossible.
> > >
> > > And then of course we also get back inot the PCI bus bandwidth
> inadequacies
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > Chris Byrne
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> > > Of David Cantrell
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 17:02
> > > To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> > > Subject: Re: [geeks] Firewalls...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:49:56PM -0600, Clay Mellender wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually, the IP Chains and IP masquerading built into linux is very
> > > > robust. I have been using it for years, and it performs very well,
> even
> > > > on a 486 with 20 Mb of ram. Ping times are very good, and with some of
> > > > the package enhancements there are some very powerfull features.
> > >
> > > I'm not denying that - in fact, I do the same.  But I am wary about
> trying
> > > to run too many interfaces on Linux, simply because PC hardware is a bit
> > > crap.
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Cantrell | root at alphacomplex.org |
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