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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