2010/3/17 Andrew Snow <and...@modulus.org>

Matthias Gamsjager wrote:
>
>>  Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will
>> be involved?
>> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and
>> motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho).
>>
>
>
> Agreed.
>
> The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this sort
> of routing/ipfw task.  The main reason to go Xeon is if you need ECC RAM,
> and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU available.
>
>
> - Andrew
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Hi,
That's what I would choose : 2 or more atom miniserver and pfsync. But I
don't know how well it can work with ipfw.

Gilles
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