From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 05:19:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D0837B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.datapro.co.za (mail.uskonet.com [196.3.164.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DF343F85 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from etienne@unix.za.org) Received: from madcow (unknown [196.35.242.87]) by smtp.datapro.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE35617FB2 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:17:49 +0200 (SAST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Etienne Ledoux To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:20:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200306181139.47521.etienne@unix.za.org> Subject: 2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12 X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:19:39 -0000 I will have the privilage of installing something on the above mentioned=20 hardware. I've never installed/configured hardware like this. Basically i= t is=20 2 servers connected to a exteral raid device with scsi cables. These serv= ers=20 can access the device at the same time. Which makes it nice for redundenc= y=20 and load balancing. We are going to use it as a big NFS mailstore which other mail servers wi= ll=20 access to deliver mail (smtp/pop3, etc.). The mailservers will all be running FreeBSD (postfix, amavisd-new,=20 courier-imap/pop3, sqwebmail,freevrrpd, etc. etc). *feerr!* I will put these servers behind a FreeBSD firewall using ipnat for round-= robin=20 load balancing. So it should eventually be a nice big redundent, load balanced mailserver= =20 behind a firewall and everybox will be running FreeBSD. My question is with regards to the servers I want to use as the NFS=20 mailstore(2x HP Netserver (LH 3r) connected to a Netserver Rackstorage 12= ).=20 Can I run FreeBSD on it too ? I guess the answer is yes? but Is FreeBSD t= he=20 best option for this type of hardware and will it be difficult to configu= re.=20 Or is Linux a better alternative ? I honestly have no idea what the best=20 option is and don't want to reliase a month or two later when everything = is=20 live that I made a mistake and shouldve done something else or installed=20 something else. tx e.