Old Dell Poweredge 860 as a router/firewall
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Hello everyone,
My friend's dad recently gave me an old Poweredge 860 that is running a Xeon 3020 Dual core I believe. We are going to get 8 gigs of ram for it and I am going to use it to replace my edgerouter.
I am just wondering how that would fair to like other more newer servers and other PFSense boxes. I have a 400/25 mbit connection and I believe fiber is being built in the area so if its possible I would get gigabit. I am planning on running VPNs on it though if it won't run it I will have another machine that will run VPNs. Lastly I am going to have at least 5-6 VLANs and Firewall rules for each some on the DNS level and some on the rule level (and if its possible with PFsense because I have only just recently started reading on it to host a DNS server of my own).
Any feedback or info relating would be greatly apricated
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That's using a Netburst Xeon right? It's not going to be fast. I don't have much to compare it with but waaay back when I was running a P4 2.8 it was good for ~300Mbps.
I would expect that pass 400Mbps using firewall and NAT only but maybe not much more.Try it and see.
Steve
