On Monday, October 11, 2010, 17:26:27, Simon Hobson wrote: > OK, as a performance point for comparison :
At work, we have 10Mbps symmetric link with about 30 computers in the private network and 3 servers in public network. Router is running on some ancient PackardBell Pentium 2 400MHz with 224MB RAM and network cards from all over (it's got an Intel Pro 100, 3Com 3c905C and 3c905B and some card with tulip kernel driver). No traffic shaping and accounting, but a lot of port forwards, 6 ipsec tunnels and OpenVPN for roadwarriors. The computer has no problems keeping up, and I'll only replace it because I'm afraid the hard disk won't work much longer. The computer is running Debian stable and shorewall. At home I used to have an Alix 2c2 box (Geode LX800 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 2xVIA Rhine III on-board - <http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm>), which worked nicely until I upgraded my home line to 100Mbps symmetric - it could only push around 80Mbps, so I replaced it with MSI IM-945GSE-A board (Atom N270 1,6GHz, 2x Intel Pro/1000 on-board). I'm running pfSense at home. Recently SuperMicro released a mini-ITX Atom board with two Intel Pro/1000 on-board cards, and I've heard from several people that it works nicely as a firewall. It uses the newer dual-core Atom D510, and would probably more than capable for 25-30Mbps (actually, for that even an Alix board will probably suffice). -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > People are always available for work in the past tense. -- Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
