Pfsense 2.0.2 support IBM System x3500 M4?
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IBM System x3500 M4
CPU : Intel Xeon 6 Core E5-2630 2.3Ghz/1333Mhz, 15MB L3 Cache
RAM : 8 GB (1x8GB, 2Rx4, 1.35V) PC3L-10600 CL9 ECC DDR3 1333MHz LP RDIMM
HDD : 2 TB 3.5”SATA
LAN Card : 1 Card “ Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340 Quad-Port
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IBM System x3500 M4
CPU : Intel Xeon 6 Core E5-2630 2.3Ghz/1333Mhz, 15MB L3 Cache
RAM : 8 GB (1x8GB, 2Rx4, 1.35V) PC3L-10600 CL9 ECC DDR3 1333MHz LP RDIMM
HDD : 2 TB 3.5”SATA
LAN Card : 1 Card “ Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340 Quad-PortIf you already have this system, it should work, possibly with some driver compiling for the NIC (though the thread I saw about it was fairly old, it's probably included now: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26592.msg140323.html )
I would not, however, buy that system for pfSense. The 6 core Xeon will be vastly under-utilized as pfSense and most of its processes are single threaded, so usually it doesn't benefit from any more than 2 cores. You'll need to run the x64 version to utilize that much RAM. Spinning drives, especially of that size are generally only good for very large squid caches, otherwise I'd probably suggest a single SSD.
But, you also didn't tell us what you're doing with it. As a pure firewall, I think 1/3 of that machine would saturate its 1Gb ports anyway. VPN would probably do pretty well on it as well.
If you're simply asking: "will it work", yeah, it should. Will it do what you want to throw at it? Probably. Is it overkill? Quite likely.
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Yep, massive overkill.
Better to run pfSense virtualised on that box. At least you can then use the rest of it for something useful.Steve
