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    Repurposing old i3 for Gigabit speeds?

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      floppysense last edited by

      I have an old system running an i3-530 (first gen) processor. It's dual core and runs at 2.93 GHz. Despite the age, will this be enough to run pfsense on a Gigabit connection? I'm giving the box an Intel dual NIC and at least 4 GB DDR3 RAM.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

        Yes. ☺

        You may hit a limit if you install some of the hungrier packages but I would expect that to pass 1Gbps without a problem. (normal packet size caveats apply!)

        Steve

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          floppysense last edited by floppysense

          Many thanks, @stephenw10. I'm thinking possibly snort, as well as maybe OpenVPN and a few other smaller ones. Think I should be okay, or should I leave some out?

          Edit: I will be running an SSD.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

            Try it and see if you already have that hardware. You will probably be able to do more than you expect.

            Steve

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              SammyWoo @floppysense last edited by

              @floppysense said in Repurposing old i3 for Gigabit speeds?:

              i3-530

              This i3-530 has no hardware AES-NI, will break starting with pfsense 2.5.

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