New server
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Hi, i'm helping out with a local lan party and are doing some of the network. Was thinking of running pfsense as the nat router, and was hoping you could give me some advice on a new server.
This time we will most likely have a 100/100 Mbit connection and around 60 ppl, but for next lan party we will probably get a 1/1Gbit connection and have around 100 ppl there so the server needs to hold that.
I made a quick setup with:
ASUS P8B-M
Xeon E3-1225
Intel E1G42ET
Crucial DDR3 1333MHz 12GB KIT REG/ECCWould this be good enough to do nat routing and maybe som graphs over the net usage.
Alex
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Please start with the hardware sizing guide. After that read the documentation and search the forum;)
Your hardware should certainly cope with 200 Mb/s, though whether it will cope with 2 Gb/s I don't know.
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Allready read the sizing guide, that's why i went with a Xeon cpu, and i tried to search the forum, but couldnt seem to find any posts about hardware when it came to routing 1/1Gbit connections
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Don't know why i coulnd find them, but thx for the links. After looking thru those i decided to go down to a desktop motherboard, a i5 2500k and 8 GB non ecc ram.
Looking forward to getting things up and running on that :)
