[rescue] Netra as a router/firewall for home use

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Sun Mar 9 18:22:46 CDT 2008


Steve Sandau wrote:
>> I have had problems getting OpenBSD to work well with dual NICs.  This 
>> may have changed as I last tested with an Ultra2 that had 2 hme's .
>>
> 
> I have used OBSD 3.8 through 4.2 (currently) on SS4s, 5s and 10s with 
> quad ethernet cards and have seen no NIC problems. The only problems I 
> have are with the Verizon DSL and cable network, and I don't think they 
> are related to the Sun hardware at all. I saw the same kinds of problems 
> with OBSD on an x86 box.

My last test was over 2 years ago.  Current firewall in my datacenter 
has been up (OpenBSD 3.9 on x86) for 650 days.  Not sure what the 
problem was with the hme's and le's I was trying (though my last test 
was 2 different hme's I think).

--Patrick



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