On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > > (about Pentium 3 level of performance) > > You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster than a P3 > at pushing packets, depending on NICs and the specific board. The > better embedded firewall boards with Atoms can push around 500 Mbps. A > PE750 would be faster, though takes ~8-9 times as much power.
As I managed to scrounge 4 GByte ECC DDR RAM, a dual-port Intel server NIC (PCI-X) and had a spare Crucial SSD (instead of a dead 80 GByte Maxtor that came with the machine orignally) I decided to give it a spin. Just installed 1.2.3 and upgraded to latest 2.0 beta snapshot. Wow, in comparison to my Atoms the thing feels like a speed demon. Boots like demented, the interface is really snappy, including RRD graphs, which has always been a bit lame -- maybe it's the switch to 2.0 from 1.3, though. I think I'm sold on it as my primary firewall, despite the hardware being ~5 years old. I will, however, keep an Atom box as the second node in a carp+pfsync failover. Did I already mention that I really, really like pfSense? ;) -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
