<p>We are having great luck with Astaro on commodity hardware. </p>
<p>IPv6 and still easy to manage. </p>
<p>J<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 2011-06-08 2:45 PM, "Chris Weiss" <<a href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com">cweiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Rhys Rhaven <<a href="mailto:rhys@rhavenindustrys.com">rhys@rhavenindustrys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Whatever I find. Currently I'm getting a good number of ~3Ghz Pentium 4s. A<br>>> gig of ram and most importantly, proper Intel NICs. 3 gigabit NICs will max<br>>> out a PCI bus, but for a perimeter router it works great. Basic rule of<br>
> <br>> I've maxed out PCI bus with 1 NIC and a 4 port sata raid controller.<br>> upgraded to a pci-x board and more than doubled the throughput.<br>> Though really, most of us don't have to worry about hitting the gigE<br>
> speeds, or even 100Mbit, for our internet routing.<br>> <br>> only time a cisco might work better, or at least easier, is for a vpn,<br>> and even then only if you can control what OS and software the users<br>
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