I am looking to step up to a full featured UTM at the house. The kids are hitting the "Internets" now and so it's time for some changes. Here are my usage requirements:
* Currently a 100Mb connection, although rumor has it gigabit fiber will come soon-ish.
* One server that needs to be segmented off, may add another. Very little traffic, just some web / SSH / Email, an occasional game server.
* Would like to be able to run IDS and filtering to keep the kiddos in line and protect myself better.
* 3 NICs would be ideal
I have read through a lot of the threads, here is what I am looking at so far:
* Fractal Design Node 304 FD-CA-NODE-304-BL Black Aluminum / Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case
* ASUS H97I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
* SeaSonic Platinum Series SS-400FL2 Active PFC F3 400W ATX12V Fanless 80 PLUS Platinum Certified Modular Active PFC Power
* Intel Core i3-4370 Haswell Dual-Core 3.8GHz LGA 1150 54W Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600 BX80646I34370
* 8GB of RAM
* Intel EXPI9402PT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter - OEM
Thoughts? Is the i3 going to keep up? I would think it should but I really don't want to have to worry about it. If for some reason Sophos doesn't work out I would swap over to ipfire or pfsesne but that would kill some of the functionality I want, but I know this hardware would work fine for those.
Another option would be the Netgate APU4 but from what I am reading it wouldn't be able to handle the load. Which is a shame because it looks like great hardware.
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