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Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router
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Matthias Gamsjager wrote:
>  Way over the top for simple fw and dhcpd. but how much traffic will
> be involved?
> Investing in a good nics will return more then a pricey cpu and
> motherboard (eec mem is good idea for 24/7 tho).


Agreed.

The Supermicro Atom miniserver is more than enough CPU grunt for this 
sort of routing/ipfw task.  The main reason to go Xeon is if you need 
ECC RAM, and even then you can get away with just using the cheapest CPU 
available.


- Andrew