A 4501 will do in terms of throughput .... tried both and I have currently a 7 port 4801 running with http://m0n0.ch/wall/ (freebsd based), mainly because a 4801 is more for all round use when I want to re-use the box later .... the 4501 is now an accurate ntp server .... 4801 & m0n0wall is perfect / secure / low power / operational web interface / 6MB on a 8 MB flash card :-) ... that's all
best regards On 28/08/2007, Jesper Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Currently I have an old AMD K6 233MHz, 128 MB ram PC running linux as > firewall, openVPN box in my parents house. I was thinking about replacing > it with a soekris board with OpenBSD. To have a smaller box using less > power and to try out OpenBSD in real use. > > I was thinking about the 4501-30 or 4801-50. The question is how much is > needed. Currently I see 10-15% cpu usage from openvpn when transferring > 1mbit/sek. I expect openvpn don't have to handle more than 2mbit/sek > traffik. I saw someone say something about interupts from the NIC setting > some limit to how much traffic this boards can handle. Is there any truth > that. What is the limit? I expect it will have to handle 20mbit speed > within the foreseeable future. > Can I expect the 4501-30 to be enough or should I spend a bit more for the > 4801-50, also to have a bit more spare resources for later. > > -- > Jesper > 03:07:37 up 3 days, 43 min, 12 users, load average: 0.86, 0.76, 0.64 > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- mvh/best regards ervin _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
