On 20 May 2014, at 01:41, Brian Caouette <bri...@dlois.com> wrote: > So this machine should scream for a home based network from the looks of it. > My current test machine you'll all laugh www.dlois.com/status.html is here. > (I kepted my old domain from when I was a dialup provider) VERY old machine > with limited hardware. It works well but doesn't always keep up with the 15 > meg cable connection. pfSense impressed me enough that I wanted to use a real > server. The new one should arrive next week. Dell PowerEdge 2850 2 x 3.2GHz / > 4GB / 64 Bit / 6 x 73GB 15K > Far cry from current P2 433 512k ram and 4 gig hd with dual 100 nics. Can't > wait!
Forgive me for saying so, but that's a massive overkill for routing a 15Mbps connection. Granted, it'd be entirely appropriate if you were routing multiple gig transits in a datacentre environment where the power consumption might be justified, but in a home environment, you're just burning through electricity for the sake of it. Of course, if you're going to run pfSense as a VM under a hypervisor with several other VMs, then I take all the above back :-) Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
