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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
![]() Hey guys, I'm working on a business plan and we have to try to price out a theoretical server farm. I'm looking at about 4 servers which I know I need and then after talking to my old sys admin (who I can't reach right now) he said I'd also probably need a switch and a firewall. The thing is I'm trying to price out these pieces of hardware and there's tons of choices and I'm not sure which ones are appropriate. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Melbourne, Australia |
![]() A switch is good because that way your cluster will be on it's own physical network segment (should be on it's own logical segment as well) and because packets are not broadcast. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
![]() Cool that helps, I was actually looking at the Dell Poweredge Dual Processor stuff for the servers. We're going to be Linux based and we'll do the Software stuff ourselves. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Melbourne, Australia |
![]() I would recommend that you actually contact Cisco and get a price quote from them. They would be able to help you get a package going. Just tell them what your basic needs are and some type of price range. A good firewall or switch would run anywhere from $500 to several thousands. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: 100101010011 <-- right about here |
![]() perfectly good suggestion thanks! |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Madison, Indiana, USA |
![]() I just bought an eight port Netgear switch for $42.00. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Maryland, USA |
![]() Right, I was going to suggest using a Linux box for the firewall. Extremely customizable, and with an operating system that you may be able to get a lot more free technical support on than any other sort of rack-mounted serial based firewall. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: Rochester, New York, USA |
![]() Yeah the Linux firewall idea is most likely the best. You can do some really nice software configurations there, that can help a whole lot when you get into situations like weathering a DOS attack, or even tracking all the incoming / outgoing packets. |