Hi Alexander
I completely agree with you and in the long run it will happen, but
getting a second machine is beyond my budget for the next couple of months.
TIA
Paolo
Alexander Lind wrote:
I don't think the celeron CPU will have any problems coping with that.
Consider getting two of the machines and CARPing them, for redundancy
and load balancing (not that you will likely really need that).
Also consider putting some extra cash down on a hw raid controller, and
2 scsi disks for each machine, and run raid 1 on them, for even more
failover safety.
Alec
Paolo Supino wrote:
Hi
I'm in the process of configuring a Dell PowerEdge 860 as firewall
and I debating what kind of CPU to get for the firewall for an office
of about 50 people, 20MB metro ethernet, and 15 lightly used Internet
servers: FTP, web, DNS, email, NTP, etc ... In addition for the
computer being a firewall it will also act as a NIDS and IPSEC peer
(something like 10 concurrent tunnels). The options I have for the CPU
are:
1. Intel Celeron 336 at 2.8Ghz/256K cache, 533Mhz FSB.
2. Dual Core Intel Pentium D 915 at 2.8Ghz/2x2MB cache, 800Mhz FSB.
3. Dual Core Xeon 3050, 2.13Ghz, 2MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB.
4. Dual Core Xeon 3060, 2.40Ghz, 4MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB.
5. Dual Core Xeon 3070, 2.66Ghz, 4MB cache, 1066Mhz FSB.
I have to be very price concious so will the celeron CPU hold the
load or should I take one of the Xeon CPU's for the load?
TIA
Paolo
