On 11/28/2014 06:01 AM, Brad Smith wrote: > On 11/27/14 23:50, jungle Boogie wrote: >> Hi, >> On 27 November 2014 at 20:38, <thev...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >>> >>> you can just use old hardware for these purposes. >>> >>> from the man who literally wrote the book on pf (from pf tutorial via >>> http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/long-firewall.html): >>> >>> I have not seen comparable tests performed recently [3.1 era], >>> but in my >>> own experience and that of others, the PF filtering overhead is >>> pretty >>> much negligible. As one data point, the machine which gateways >>> between >>> one of the networks where I've done a bit of work and the world is a >>> Pentium III 450MHz with 384MB of RAM. When I've remembered to >>> check, I've >>> never seen the machine at less than 96 percent 'idle' according >>> to top. >>> >> >> Yes, that's true! But less fun. ;) >> >> I do have some Dell dimensions machine with OpenBSD -current running >> now that I could easily get two NICs but its kinda old and slow to >> update current. I'll measure the power to see how much it uses. >> >> With the fact that old hardware, why would the APU be "OK" and not good? > > I don't see anyone claiming it would not be good. It's more like if you > happen to have some old hw around that it would probably be good enough > for what you're describing but the APU system would also do the job just > fine. > > I run the previous generation ALIX 2D13 with OpenBSD 5.6 on it for a home firewall with 10MB WAN broadband and 100MB between computers. All is fine: low temperature, low consumption, same speed as with a basic 100MBB switch.
So I guess the APU1C is fast enought for a home network.
