I am running an embedded 533 MHz with 256 MB memory and it is woefully inadequate for an office setting. Even for a home setting which wants stuff like snort running as well. I would WAG atleast a 2 GB memory and the Atoms max out at that...? If the firewall will be doing other stuff like snort, vpn, dns, dhcp, nat, (I am talking pfSense here), then 2 GB is rather short and I'd like to see a beefier CPU as well. So, the question really is what all are you going to be doing with it?
Mehma === On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Martin Schrvder <mar...@oneiros.de> wrote: > 2010/1/26 <s.casw...@protocol6.com>: > > The hardware I'm considering is a Dell PowerEdge 850 server with four GbE > NICs (two built-in and two on an expansion card) > > > > We have 25 people on a private IP subnet NATed to a handful of public IPs > > > > We'll be using a high-speed cable modem connection - 50 Mbps down/10Mbps > up - as our primary Internet link, with a slower aDSL link as a backup. > > > > In addition to the PF firewall I want to use the box as an (bridged) > OpenVPN endpoint for 3-5 folks. > > I'm curious if this > > http://www.lannerinc.com/Network_Application_Platforms/Desktop-Fanless_Applia nces/FW-7530 > would be enough for this. > > Best > Martin
