On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:14 PM, <li...@wrant.com> wrote: > The D525 is quite older than the new systems suggested in the thread, > and fully saturates the 100 Mbps LAN with SSH so no worries, external > networks is << 100 Mbps.
<snip> > Recommendation for a very capable router are C2750/C2758 Supermicro > board and a case that can use 12 cm fans if you're going to be > listening to it. Reference mainboard models: A1SAi-2750F or A1SRi-2758F, > those about roughly as half as the computing power of Xeon E3-1230/1245. I have several of the SuperMicro 5015A based systems, most with the D510 processor and one here with the D525 but never had a problem with it overheating and use it with a picoPSU as the noise from the stock PSU was just too much (the D510 based systems are much quieter than the D525 one). I did replace one of the D510 based systems (a heavily used one) with a new one using SuperMicro's 5018D board and elected the Core i3 4160 over the Xeon's as I didn't think the extra cores provided by a Xeon helped firewall usage and the HyperThreading on the i3 (which supports the ECC memory needed for this board) can be disabled. Only problem with this board is that OpenBSD's support of one of the onboard nic's, the Intel i217-LM, is questionable (it did not work for me), so I needed to pick up a PCI-E add in nic. Note that also the IPMI interface is separate from the other two embedded interfaces in this system (X10SLL-F board).
