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whats the bandwidth you have?
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I've 100mb/s of bandwidth …
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Get good nics (like intel) and a board with a fast PCI-Bus. Depending on encryption needs if you plan to run IPSEC tunnels you need a more or less Powerful CPU. 1 GB Ram should be more than enough (however that depends on the packages that you want to run additional to the base install).
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okey and you're sure that one own server can support 2500 users (Of which has little near 1000 at the same time) ??
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I would think so unless you want to run additional packages on the firewall itself which might not be a good idea (depending on the package und usage).
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I'm just using squid to redirect my lan trafic to another proxy
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You can do this by a simple portforward. Squid is not neccessary for this.
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maybe but I need squid access.log file to keep traces of my users navigation…
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I would say that one server should be able to handle this load. Make sure to get a server with a 64bit pci, at least 1gb ram, possibly 2gb, and dual cpu's.
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I would like to know if using multiple pfsense servers don't raise any problem??I think to this architecture like a potential solution because I need to separate the differents sites of my network with proper's dhcp range…
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Use one system for everything and add a failoversystem if needed. You can setup individual DHCPs for each interface and seperate networks by firewallrules where needed.