RE: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Simon Dick
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:15:31 -0500, Ryan Rodrigue [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sorry to butt in to this question, but i think it kinda goes along. Has anybody tried the new Inet atom based processors for something like this? They have made a few ITX boards for a pretty cheap price. They even have

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Mansfield
Simon Dick wrote: I have an Atom 230 based system I've just put together, unfortunately it's not one I'm planning to install BSD nevermind pfSense on, I'll actually be using it for VMWare (one of the guests will be pfSense, but this is only for a small home network, I'm trying to combine old low

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Simon Dick
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:55:51 +0100, Paul Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Simon Dick wrote: I have an Atom 230 based system I've just put together, unfortunately it's not one I'm planning to install BSD nevermind pfSense on, I'll actually be using it for VMWare (one of the guests will be

RE: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Ryan Rodrigue
I have a board on order and will let you know how well it works with pfsense. -Original Message- From: Simon Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:02 AM To: support@pfsense.com; support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup On Fri

RE: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Simon Dick
] Review New Hardware Setup On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:55:51 +0100, Paul Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Simon Dick wrote: I have an Atom 230 based system I've just put together, unfortunately it's not one I'm planning to install BSD nevermind pfSense on, I'll actually be using

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are main CPU hog is the Captive Portal, with 50-100+ people trying to login at the same time, it can eat up the CPU big time. If i turn captiveportal off, are 5501s barely peak over 30% cpu, with it on, I'm seeing 100% spikes all the time. I can't see me ever having a pipe bigger then 50mb/s

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are main CPU hog is the Captive Portal, with 50-100+ people trying to login at the same time, it can eat up the CPU big time. If i turn captiveportal off, are 5501s barely peak over 30% cpu, with it on, I'm seeing 100%

RE: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-12 Thread Ryan Rodrigue
Sorry to butt in to this question, but i think it kinda goes along. Has anybody tried the new Inet atom based processors for something like this? They have made a few ITX boards for a pretty cheap price. They even have intel chipsets.

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-12 Thread Curtis LaMasters
I would try one of these. http://www.ironsystems.com/items.asp?Cc=ACLASS 1U's are nice. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com

Re: [pfSense Support] Review New Hardware Setup

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from a previous discussion, Opteron processors are best. Not necessarily at this time. The biggest factor in pps throughput is L1 cache size. AMD procs used to have significantly more L1 cache than Intels and hence were