Andrew C Burnette wrote: > Paul M wrote: >> I am using tested hardware: a single core2duo with 2GB memory on Tyan >> motherboard with pairs of 250G sata (memo to self, discover how to do >> mirroring). > nice -n- peppy I bet.
it was actually one of the lowest spec machines our supplier could provide - I think each was about GBP700 (US$1400). > My PIII 550Mhz w/ 512Mbytes of old sdram on a lousy i810 chipset barely > sweats at 30Mbps and 6k connections. :-) I would rate pfsense (and of I think ours is more than a bit overspecced - with four giga nics and a 100baseT for sync (the tyan has twin gigas and the 100baseT) it should be enough to handle most things... all the servers are gigE, and with a pair of Cisco 3560E to provide internal wire-speed giga switching should allow us to pump a lot of data around! > Good idea is to pop in Intel nic cards. (shhh, big secret, they sell > 'server cards' with identical everything for 2x-3x the price, so buy the I found that twin PCI-X gigE's are a bit pricey, whether IBM/broadcom or Intel, GBP150 (US$300), but since the firewalls are 1U there's only one card slot. Oh yeah, I booted linux and disabled power management on the motherboard's nics which caused us a lot of grief on similar boxes when running linux: http://e1000.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Issues#82573.28V.2FL.2FE.29_TX_Unit_Hang_messages > Also helps to have last year's motherboard chipset, as the newly > released ones take a couple minor revs to be stable in some cases. indeed! Paul
