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i3-2120 for a 300Mbps fiber link?

Hi guys, am looking for input for the following configuration.

This will be used in a home environment. I don't intend to have IPS enabled, and HTTP proxy caching will be turned off. I have a 300Mbps fiber link to my home, and I intend to do a site-to-site IPsec VPN (for development with Azure).

This "appliance" is actually a used OptiPlex 980 SFF, with an additional PCI-e GE card.

The specifications are as follows:

i3-2120 (2x 3.3 GHz)
2GB of DDR3-SDRAM
250GB HDD

Thanks!

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0 BarryG over 10 years ago

If you already have the hardware, give it a try. Make sure to use Intel or Broadcom NICs.

You should be able to get about 300mbps through the IPS with that CPU BTW; my 3.4GHz i5 gets 320mbps:
https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/astaroorg/f/52/t/29110

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0 BarryG over 10 years ago

If you already have the hardware, give it a try. Make sure to use Intel or Broadcom NICs.

You should be able to get about 300mbps through the IPS with that CPU BTW; my 3.4GHz i5 gets 320mbps:
https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/astaroorg/f/52/t/29110

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0 ryanswj over 10 years ago in reply to BarryG

If you already have the hardware, give it a try. Make sure to use Intel or Broadcom NICs.

You should be able to get about 300mbps through the IPS with that CPU BTW; my 3.4GHz i5 gets 320mbps:
https://www.astaro.org/gateway-products/hardware-installation-up2date-licensing/49427-ips-performance-tests-hardware-benchmarks-unofficial.html#post250520

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You have an extremely powerful i5 processor, and are only managing 320Mbps? I did not know IPS was that intensive.
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0 William Warren over 10 years ago in reply to ryanswj

You have an extremely powerful i5 processor, and are only managing 320Mbps? I did not know IPS was that intensive.

snort depends on things that are anachronistic these days:
1.  Raw ghz
2. high single thread performance.

so the fastest i-5 is good for about 300-ish megabit per instance of snort.  probably 90% of the utm is multi-threaded...but snort is purely single threaded.  You have to design a system differently for snort.

search the forums for snort and filter by my username.  I have gone into lengthy detail too many times to repost it again..[:)]

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