I agree with Chris... We've deployed 50 ALIX boxes for a client and they are rock solid - decently fast for normal activities. If you're going to be doing squid or anything that requires some horsepower you might look toward something with more ram.
For our central firewalls we find boxes like this and drop Flash IDE drives in them http://cgi.ebay.com/Rackable-1U-Server-Accelertech-HDAMA-Motherboard-2x- AMD_W0QQitemZ370071828988QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item370071828988&_trkparms= 72%3A392|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318 Sam Newnam Lead Solutions Engineer Apparent Source, LLC www.apparentsource.com 336-790-8780 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:55 AM To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] hardware On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Mark Dueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Throughput will be minimal. From 512Kbps to 2Mbps max. I guess my biggest > concern is stability. I have lab tested the Soekris 4801 with openVPN to > have throughput of up to 3MB/s, so it should be fine for these locations, > but I'm just a little unsure of a 'business critical' decision and wanted > some input. > I would probably go with ALIX hardware for such a deployment. I get the ALIX hardware I use from netgate.com and would recommend them. That'll push about 75 Mb of throughput, and about 10-12 Mb of VPN traffic based on numbers I have heard from others. I haven't had a chance to test max throughput on any of mine yet, they're definitely more than adequate for what you're looking to do and give you a good deal of scalability for the future.
