Andrew Snow
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:16:24 -0700
Matthias Gamsjager wrote:
Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will be involved? Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho).
Agreed.The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this sort of routing/ipfw task. The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC RAM, and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU available.
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