I've given up on getting the other machine to work so I'm looking at building a new one.
The machine will be a firewall/gateway running NAT, Web Proxy with Dansguardian, DHCP, DNS, NTP and VPN (~6 clients).
I read so much about VPN encryption and the processor needs, now I am unsure if this will work.
I can get this for AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor for under $120 (it's on sale), would it work ?
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Terre
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Terre Porter <tporter@webpage-builders.com
wrote:
I've given up on getting the other machine to work so I'm looking at building a new one.
The machine will be a firewall/gateway running NAT, Web Proxy with Dansguardian, DHCP, DNS, NTP and VPN (~6 clients).
I read so much about VPN encryption and the processor needs, now I am unsure if this will work.
You'll likely need to determine how many VPN tunnels you're going to run simultaneously and then find benchmarks on the web.
I can get this for AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor for under $120 (it's on sale), would it work ?
Seems like overkill to me.
I'd suggest more along the lines of an Atom-CPU based system. One of those mini-ITX setups that use 20W or thereabouts.
Just my two cents.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Terre
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I've not worked with Atom processors but I'll look in to it.
Thanks for the info.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of SilverTip257 Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:36 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firewall/Gateway Hardware Question
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Terre Porter <tporter@webpage-builders.com
wrote:
I've given up on getting the other machine to work so I'm looking at building a new one.
The machine will be a firewall/gateway running NAT, Web Proxy with Dansguardian, DHCP, DNS, NTP and VPN (~6 clients).
I read so much about VPN encryption and the processor needs, now I am unsure if this will work.
You'll likely need to determine how many VPN tunnels you're going to run simultaneously and then find benchmarks on the web.
I can get this for AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor for under $120 (it's on sale), would it work ?
Seems like overkill to me.
I'd suggest more along the lines of an Atom-CPU based system. One of those mini-ITX setups that use 20W or thereabouts.
Just my two cents.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Terre
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
we are running 51 ipsec vpns on an Atom D510 at 1.66ghz and the load average is .07.
HTH, Steve
On 10/15/2013 02:13 PM, Terre Porter wrote:
I've not worked with Atom processors but I'll look in to it.
Thanks for the info.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of SilverTip257 Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:36 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firewall/Gateway Hardware Question
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Terre Porter <tporter@webpage-builders.com
wrote: I've given up on getting the other machine to work so I'm looking at building a new one.
The machine will be a firewall/gateway running NAT, Web Proxy with Dansguardian, DHCP, DNS, NTP and VPN (~6 clients).
I read so much about VPN encryption and the processor needs, now I am unsure if this will work.
You'll likely need to determine how many VPN tunnels you're going to run simultaneously and then find benchmarks on the web.
I can get this for AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor for under $120 (it's on sale), would it work ?
Seems like overkill to me.
I'd suggest more along the lines of an Atom-CPU based system. One of those mini-ITX setups that use 20W or thereabouts.
Just my two cents.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Terre
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:03PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
Hi,
we are running 51 ipsec vpns on an Atom D510 at 1.66ghz and the load average is .07.
HTH, Steve
Some years back I used to run Smoothwall/GPL as a home firewall/router on things such as 90 MHz pentiums (with 64 or even 128 MB RAM), or at one point a 500 MHz AMD K6, and it had no load problems at all handling the 3 or 4 of us here who share the household LAN. Therefore I'd think that something such as an Atom would be entirely up to the task. There are a number of (relatively) inexpensive Atom boards in a Micro-ATX or Mini-ATX format that you could use, for example.
Fred
On 10/15/2013 07:29 PM, Terre Porter wrote:
I can get this for AMD FX-8120 Zambezi 3.1GHz Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor for under $120 (it's on sale), would it work ?
Except for HTTP cache, my opinion is an OpenWRT box will do it. If you need an HDD, I would go for a Lanner with HDD: http://goo.gl/52mXqx
Do somebody have experience wiit a Dell Poweredge 2950 Xeon quad 2.5 with Centos 6.4
--- Michel Donais
Michel Donais donais@telupton.com a écrit :
Do somebody have experience wiit a Dell Poweredge 2950 Xeon quad 2.5 with Centos 6.4
In the past (more than 2 years ago), I've used CentOS 5 on Poweredge 2950 without any issues. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator was installed on the system. I've also regularly upgraded firmwares using the Dell Server Update Utility (SUU). -- Laurent CREPET
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Michel Donais wrote:
Do somebody have experience wiit a Dell Poweredge 2950 Xeon quad 2.5 with Centos 6.4
I still have 3 2950 gen 3's running. They "just work" however keep in mind that they are getting old. On the plus side they are cheap enough that you can keep a spare machine around for parts. Having said that I will not touch any of them that are not gen 3. They are just too old.
Regards,
From: me@tdiehl.org Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 1:10
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Michel Donais wrote:
Do somebody have experience wiit a Dell Poweredge 2950 Xeon
quad 2.5
with Centos 6.4
Is there a problem you have observed?
I still have 3 2950 gen 3's running. They "just work" however keep in mind that they are getting old. On the plus side they are cheap enough that you can keep a spare machine around for parts. Having said that I will not touch any of them that are not gen 3. They are just too old.
We run on Dell 2970, the AMD equivalent. No problems.
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