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    Sizing: 34Mbit WAN + failover ADSL and a couple of services running

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      Hello everybody, been a while since i last posted here but i guess you didn't miss me :)

      anyway, i need to build a pfsense box which will give access to the internet to a "small" LAN event…

      i'll have
      1 LAN - gbit
      2 WANs: 1x34mbit symmetric PPPoE connection and one dynamic interface connected to a 20/1mbit ADSL for failover (bit of balancing)

      problem is: i'll need to run the captive portal and freeRADIUS on the firewall for accounting and a bit of bandwidth limitation and fair usage.
      plus i was planning to run squid + squidguard for blacklisting the worst or preventing ppl to get to malware sytes etc...

      since it's for a spot event, investing might become an issue so i was wondering:
      i happened to put my hands on an HP Microserver with an AMD athlon II Neo N36L 800Mhz dual core, with 1GB RAM.
      i was planning to stick an additional gigabit network nic (yet to buy) and use the managed switch capabilities to use 2 separate VLANs on the same NIC to connect the WAN interfaces.

      do you think it'll do? or maybe i should look forward to some more powerful hardware?

      also any suggestion on a NIC that would support VLANs no problem and that can stick insode the HP Microserver?

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