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      Motoma last edited by

      I'm curious any of these will meet my requirements: http://www.asaservers.com/showpages.asp?pid=1291

      Basically, I intent to set up a firewall at my home office to maintain an IPsec VPN to my datacenter, as well as provide basic IPS features to the machines I will be using from home.

      So essentially, my question boils down to "Will a dual-core 1.6 Atom with 2 GB of RAM be able to run IPsec + Snort on two interfaces?"

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        jasonlitka last edited by

        Maybe. Depends on the number of rules and the speed of your connection.

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          CaseyBlackburn last edited by

          I'd suggest not getting any of the ones that say "Dual GigE LAN ports" because all their specs say Realtek chipsets are used for networking. The Intel ones are most defiantly preferred in my opinion.

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            jasonlitka last edited by

            The systems with the Intel NICs are not Atom boards.

            While Intel NICs are certainly preferred, there's nothing wrong with Realtek Gig-E when you're talking about a home internet connection as they top out at 5-10x the typical 35-50Mbit/s for a high-end personal connection.

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              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate last edited by

              The "crappy" Realtek cards were all 100Mbit. The gigabit cards are quite a bit better; I've never had any problems with them.

              Intel cards are of higher quality, for certain, but in most cases the Realtek cards will do just fine.

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