Did anyone tried this?

[nikkon]

Hi all,

Need to build a new appliance and i was looking @ those 2:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/celeron/X10/X10SBA-L.cfm
or
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SAi-2750F.cfm
It will handle OpenVPN and Suricata + ~50 firewall/nat rules

Any idea about the support for Atom c2750 and J1900 ?
Thank you

[jasonlitka]

Use this instead:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SRi-2758F.cfm

[nikkon]

Thx for the reply…
Nice choice...but more expensive

[stephenw10]

@nikkon:

It will handle OpenVPN and Suricata + ~50 firewall/nat rules

At what throughput?

Steve

[jasonlitka]

@nikkon:

Thx for the reply…
Nice choice...but more expensive

Yes, because it includes QuickAssist and is a longer-term support product.  Unless you're paying double it's worth the extra cash.

[nikkon]

planned to use it on a Gigabit connection on fiber.

[stephenw10]

If you want to run openvpn with securicata at 1Gbps you're going to need all the processing power you can get.

Steve

[messerchmidt]

1gbps = 125 megabytes per second

see here: http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4461/29/amd-a10-6800k–a10-6700-cpu-review-richland-tested-benchmarks-igpu-truecrypt-71-aes-+-aes-ni

a celeron-j or athlon 5350 will therefore do it.

i would suggest going with a supermicro 4-8 core atom board as it has ecc support , intel nics (no realtek junk), and their ipms video/controller so you can remote login to the system without a mouse, keyboard,etc attached to the system. get a board that takes regular ddr3 and no the laptop so-dimms.