So many spare parts, not sure where to go.
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Goals for pfsense:
1. VPN, supporting no more than 3 concurrent sessions.
2. Handles 1 xbox, 2 laptops, 1 file server (just dishing out movies and tv shows to LAN clients and running utorrent 24/7), 1 gaming pc, 2 android devices.
3. Handles firewalling between all devices. I want to restrict which devices can talk to each other and over what ports.
4. 50/10 connection from WAN.
5. Gigabit internal speeds between networked machines.Parts I already have:
1. 2x Quad Intel 1Gbit nics (PCIe).
2. Ugly frankenstein machine, old file server running 8Gb of DDR2 on an Athlon 7850 Black Edition on a GA-MA785GM-US2H
3. Dell R710 (possible to do ESXi with it). 2x E5606 Xeons, 16gb of ram, etc.With this slew of hardware I have multiple options, not to mention that I don't mind throwing a bit of money to make it all look nice and maybe get more appropriate equipment.
I want to keep the pfsense router to a low wattage machine in a 1u or 2u rackmount.
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So, what are your questions?
Have you already searched the forum and read the documentation, such as the hardware sizing guide?
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I think your R710 is OVERKILL. I save this for heavy file server/gaming host server. I look for a low voltage solution if you like dell servers check out the r410 lower voltage server. It a nive server and we have 5 or 10 in rack now at work.
RC