On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we stick with two dedicated boxes? > Since we pay for power, nice to have lower power… So do we go as low as > using embedded hardware? It used to not be recommended for packages… still > the case I assume? > > So I’m leaning towards some of the newer SuperMicro Atom boxes (quad core, > or 8 core!!??! etc…). > > A couple of years ago I updated my data center systems to a pair of SuperMicro systems from Silicon Mechanics. I bought their smallest boxes (half depth) and had them custom configure them with a single SSD each and 16GB of RAM which was their minimum. I also had them put in the low-power Xeon CPUs since I, too, pay for power. I run two point to point OpenVPNs and a handful of road warrior VPN connections. I don't run any other pfSense packages. There are about 25 or so firewall rules and about that many aliases as well. I've measured the outbound traffic peaking at over 200Mbps. I'm sure it can do more but I just can't generate that much traffic naturally. I'm not boding the NICs either -- these are just single gigabit ethernet connections. Last year I upgraded my main office firewall from an ALIX based twin configuration to a pair of pfSense branded C2758. I think these are mighty fine boxes and would be able to handle my data center traffic just fine as well, had they been available at the time I needed them.
_______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
