Hello as stated in the subj I have a network of 60 ip's ( a city block network ) that are orientated 95 on p2p traffic DC++ & torrents, the reason I wanted to try pfsense is for the traffic shaper that seems to do a good job in ensuring some bandwith for e-mail and http traffic and evenly distributing the remaning bandwith between the users, the router is a fujitsu simens PC cpu PIIi@ 733 with 512mb RAM and two 3COM nics. The thing that happns is that when the traffic is at his highest ( everybody is downloading ) pfsese hangs for a few minutes and starts over for a few more until it crashhes all toghether. For the moment I went back to my old debian Linux for this job on the same machine but i'm not satisfied it is crawling although it is stable.
My question is do I need faster hardware for the job, are there any minimum hardware requirments based on traffic, if not where should I look ? the bandwith is of 100mb on the metropolitan traffic and of 2 mb external.
