Paolo, Celerons will work fine, but in the interests of long term capacity planning, I would recommend going with the low end Dual Core Xeon.
Regards, Mike Lockhart =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike Lockhart [Systems Engineering & Operations] StayOnline, Inc http://www.stayonline.net/ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 8714 6F73 3FC8 E0A4 0663 3AFF 9F5C 888D 0767 1550 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paolo Supino Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CPU selection Hi I'm in the process of configuring a Dell PowerEdge 860 as firewall and I debating what kind of CPU to get for the firewall for an office of about 50 people, 20MB metro ethernet, and 15 lightly used Internet servers: FTP, web, DNS, email, NTP, etc ... In addition for the computer being a firewall it will also act as a NIDS and IPSEC peer (something like 10 concurrent tunnels). The options I have for the CPU are: 1. Intel Celeron 336 at 2.8Ghz/256K cache, 533Mhz FSB. 2. Dual Core Intel Pentium D 915 at 2.8Ghz/2x2MB cache, 800Mhz FSB. 3. Dual Core Xeon 3050, 2.13Ghz, 2MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB. 4. Dual Core Xeon 3060, 2.40Ghz, 4MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB. 5. Dual Core Xeon 3070, 2.66Ghz, 4MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB. I have to be very price concious so will the celeron CPU hold the load or should I take one of the Xeon CPU's for the load? TIA Paolo
