Harald Finnås wrote:
Not really a CentOS specific question, but I hope it's ok...
I've decided to buy a server to use as a firewall/router instead of the usual Cisco box, simply because I've come to love Firewall Builder and would like to put all my subnets into one firewall. There will be four gigabit interfaces in the box, one of which will be the internet connection (so this one interface will use max. 10 mbit).
Question is if any "normal" hardware will be able to handle this if most of the interfaces gets saturated? What chipset / motherboard should I go for?
Uber I/O?
Something like an Opteron-based motherboard that has plenty of HyperTransport interconnects which only seem to belong to Sun or HP boxes as Bryan has helpfully pointed a while ago. Tyan boards being the next closest thing.