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Originally Posted by Dr-D View Post
I'm testing this OpenBSD router on an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ w/3GB RAM. If I make this a permanent router will an old AMD Duron 950MHz w/768MB have sufficient enough power for this? I assume it will but I'm asking to be sure as we all know assumption is the mother of all f*** ups.
Considering a 133 MHz AMD ELAN (i.e. Soekris net4501) usually has enough power to keep up with most home internet connections, I'd say yeah, the 950 MHz Duron would suffice...I don't know how much traffic you're trying to move, but if it's a really high volume, make sure your NICs are decent (like Intel em(4) NICs...they're usually pretty good).

And you won't see any improvement on a firewall with dual cores (unless you're running other stuff besides pf, like squid or whatever).
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