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> Now, they don't use ECC ram Right, which is why I wouldn't use them for production, other than firewall. I've just oredered a http://www.supermicro.com/produ
by eleitl 17y ago
> Now, they don't use ECC ram
Right, which is why I wouldn't use them for production, other than firewall. I've just oredered a http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H.cfm?typ=H http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-... kit for 199 EUR sans VAT, add about 35 EUR for 2 GByte Kingston ValueRAM, a port riser for 10 EUR and a dual-port Intel NIC (e.g. E1G42ETBLK) for about 100 EUR, a little flash DoM with pfSense and you've got a nice firewall.
- lsc 17y agowhy are you okay with non-ecc in your firewall? not all traffic is checksummed, corrupted packets are bad as anything.
- eleitl 17y agoIt's a question of price and low power. I'm currently running two mini-ITX C3 systems in parallel, which don't have ECC either. I'm hoping most of the traffic will just remain on the Intel NIC (I'm running a transparent bridge), which is server-grade, so it will itself be not a source of corruption. The rest will be caught by checksums, hopefully.