guestimating high user loads on the systems since you said its for a university. Those servers will do very nicely. pfsense doesnt use up much resources. average home user can run a 233MHz system with 128 megs of RAM and be good. something like 1k of RAM per state on the firewall. you will prob not ever use more than 500 meg on the HDD unless you install packages that do a lot of logging. also look over the sizing recommendations on the pfsense website http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49 comparatively, those servers look like they should be able to handle a full gigabit throughput with high number of states with no issue. -Sean
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:41:01 +0000From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hardware opinion Hi All,I was wondering of testing pfsense in a production enviroment like (a university).What do you guys think of this hardware ?DELL PowerEdge R200Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3210, 2.13GHz OR Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3210, 2.13GHz2 Gigabit nics2GB RAM 667MHz dual rank ECC (2x1GB)160GB SATA 7200rpmI think that the Harddisk and RAM is more thank enough, but what about the processor and the hardwaredo you ever tried this DELL PowerEdge R200 with pfsense ? Did you find any drawbacks ?Best regards and thanks on your opinionNuno _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
