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On 6/28/2015 11:50 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > That DIY Kit was pretty cool, thanks for the info! I note everyone is moving over to the Intel Avoton/Rangley 'system on a chip', this is the Xeon Atom C2xx8 series, like this... http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440-board.aspx (other versions of Rangley come with 2-4-6 ethernet ports, and 2-4-8 cores) these are higher performance than the APU, for somewhat more watts and dollars. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

...Using a CentOS 6 Machine as a gateway/router/home > server > > On 6/28/2015 11:50 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > That DIY Kit was pretty cool, thanks for the info! > > I note everyone is moving over to the Intel Avoton/Rangley 'system on a > chip', this is the Xeon Atom C2xx8 series, like this... > http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440-board.aspx > (other versions of Rangley come with 2-4-6 ethernet ports, and 2-4-8 cores) > > these are higher performance than the APU, for somewhat more watts and > dollars. Gotcha'. Fewer watts may be worth it in...

On 6/28/2015 11:11 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > May I ask why you don't just use a made-for-the-purpose-distro like > Smoothwall to do this? indeed, I use pfSense, running on a APU1D4 [1] router board as my firewall, and a separate home server on a HP Microserver [2]. IMHO, keeping the firewall function completely separate simplifies security. that router board can handle 300 Mbit/sec of