If pfsense a suitable choice?
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I have a client with a network connected to the Internet through an aging and flaky Cisco 3620. It's a 50mb/s "burstable" link to the internet, with average sustained output to the internet of about 15-20mb/s (peaking around 40mb/s) and input from the internet of 3 to 10 mbs. They mostly serve web pages. They have 6 class C ranges and about 30 or so physical servers. Currently the Cisco has a very small number of filters in place to block undesirable networks, but not a lot else.
They're thinking of putting pfsense on a 2.8 GHz Intel box (single core 32 bit) with 4 gigs of RAM and a couple of Intel Pro/1000 cards (because that's what they have laying around).
Does that sound reasonable to replace the Cisco? Or should they use something beefier for hardware?
TIA
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A pentium 3 could probably handle that kind or traffic. But that machine should. E able to handle that with ease.
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Yes, for firewall/routing duties your suggested system will easily handle a 50Mbps connection. You haven't specified what cpu and there is obviously a big difference between a 2.8GHz P4 and a 2.8GHz i7 (though that isn't single core but you get my point!). However even the oldest 2.8GHz CPU will still be fine although power hungry.
Steve
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After looking at it the BIOS reports the CPU as an Intel Pentium D 2.80 GHz with two cores. Guess that's plenty. Thanks for the replies guys.
