I'm thinking of setting up a private rack (10 shelf) with a few Dual Xeon 3.2's, few p4 3.06's and such with 1000mb ports, cisco firewall and a few other toys...

I'm looking to lease servers on the rack to offset the costs... my traffic isn't that heavy but being on a big shelf right now with all the bandwidth hogs is starting to annoy me

Please contact me with any interests..

Thanks!

I am going to guess you are wanting the private rack anyways but if your sole reason is because people are filling the pipe near your server you can bring it to ev1's attention and see what happens. They generally do a pretty good job of keeping the network running smooth but if it is problem for you if nothing else could move to a different subnet (meaning new ips) to get on another switch.

Or most likely you just want a rack but have to justify it somehow to yourself

Please note, the standard Cisco PIX firewall is a 100mbps firewall and this would limit your upstream capabilities.

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i guess Amy didn't take that into account when she wrote up my quote

so umm... how do i circumvent that issue? are there any 1000mb port hardware firewalls that you have?

From the descriptions, the Juniper and Pix only support 100mbit.

You could setup an isolated GBit network for server to server communications and then run a standard 100mbit switch with a PIX/Juniper for the public side. Of course, since you're planning on sharing the rack, the administration of the firewall would have to be handled by you and you'll be getting quite a few midnight requests to change firewall settings.
For a shared rack, I would just go with a single gbit switch as it is cheaper and involves 0 administration. Just a thought.

It depends on if you need stateful firewall protection or simply network-based ACL coverage at gigabit speed.

We can use a gigabit router for just a bit more than the Netscreen 50 firewall costs.

If you need a true stateful firewall, though, you're looking at a few thousand a month for the firewall itself.