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James: Like Astaro similarly, seemed a bit more "don't mess under
the hood" than pfSense. I've been pushing these appliance distros
over raw BSD or Linux so hopefully people who aren't network admins
can manage them. <br>
<br>
Chris: If you think Cisco VPN is easier, check out pfSense 2.0's
OpenVPN and certificate configuration. Or Astaro. Or Vyatta. Cisco
and Juniper VPN is bleh. <br>
<br>
On 06/08/2011 02:13 PM, James Arlen wrote:
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<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
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> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Rhys Rhaven <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" 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>
> devices run.<br>
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