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      Selbach
      last edited by

      Hi everyone.

      I am looking into using a pfsense box for traffic shaping/limiting/QoS on a 1gbit/1gbit connection.
      It will be shaping the traffic for up to 250 ip´s.

      I got an dual cpu opteron 265 (1,8 ghz) in spare, but as I can read it will not be able to handle it.

      I was thinking of using an Intel or Supermicro Motherboard with a Xeon E3-1245V2 and 8gb of ram.

      Would that be able to handle it?

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        A Former User
        last edited by

        we currently have 1Gbit connections to our pfsense boxes…

        Supermicro 1U
        Dual L5420 Xeon Cpu's (8 cores total between the 2 cpu's)
        48G of ram
        Intel Nic's built into the motherboard
        we dont run QOS/IDS...
        most of our links are at 80% utilization

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          You could handle a 1Gbps connection with much lesser hardware though. Your original suggestion should do it easily.

          Steve

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            Selbach
            last edited by

            #1 thanks for the info.

            That sounds like the E3-1245V2 should have no problem doing this.

            #2 if my old hardware (1,8ghz) should be able to handle it how come this link says that I should use 3ghz?

            http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
            "501+ Mbps - server class hardware with PCI-X or PCI-e network adapters. No less than 3.0 GHz CPU."

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            • chpalmerC
              chpalmer
              last edited by

              @Selbach:

              #1 thanks for the info.

              That sounds like the E3-1245V2 should have no problem doing this.

              #2 if my old hardware (1,8ghz) should be able to handle it how come this link says that I should use 3ghz?

              http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
              "501+ Mbps - server class hardware with PCI-X or PCI-e network adapters. No less than 3.0 GHz CPU."

              Your original suggestion should do it easily.

              Intel or Supermicro Motherboard with a Xeon E3-1245V2 and 8gb of ram.

              ;)

              Triggering snowflakes one by one..
              Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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                Selbach
                last edited by

                #4 thanks for writing that in bold for me :)

                It must have been to early in the morning when I read the post  ::)

                It could actually be great if they did update the guidelines for 1gbit

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Ah, yes I should have made that clearer.
                  You can achieve 1Gbps throughput with even a low end Sandy Bridge CPU like the G530. Once you add traffic shaping you'd want something a bit more powerful though. The hardware guidelines are, unfortunately, out of date. I would guess that's based on a single core CPU.

                  Steve

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                    Selbach
                    last edited by

                    #6

                    Thanks for clearing it up, I will use the E3-1245V2 for the project an see how much power is left when it is being hit by that amount of traffic  :)

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