Tim Korves schrieb: > Hi all, > > we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense > firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second. > > We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration: > - 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors > - 4 or 8 GB of RAM > - QuadPort Intel Pro 1000 Ethernet NICs (PCIe x4) > - RAID 1 of SAS or SATA HDDs via 3Ware RAID Controller > > What would you advise? >
I'm not sure if you can do that currently (no real-life experience - just reading specs). You might want to go the AMD-Shanghai route for this one. Or wait for the Nehalem-Xeons to hit the streets next year (Intel Quick Path). Maybe, with some some kind words and a little hansel, the developers might want to do a native 64bit version ;-) Sun's Niagara2 (T5450) would be a good platform for that, from what I know - it can bring 6GB over the bus at least. To bad it's SPARC ;-) cheers, Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
