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<div>Does anyone have strong opinions regarding hardware? I am
currently running FreeS/WAN on a very old odd-ball box with around 20
site-to-site (lan-2-lan) tunnels. We will not be going over 50 tunnels
for the foreseeable future. Very soon we will be upgrading to a 5 Mbps
dedicated Internet link. The new Openswan box will not be providing any
firewall services... strictly VPN gateway. We plan on going with SuSE.</div>
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<div> * CPUs (more cores versus faster cores? x86 versus x86_64?)</div>
<div> * NICs (onboard versus card? brands?)</div>
<div> * Other considerations?</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance!<br>
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John Gorham<br>
Network Administrator<br>
The DPL Group<br>
<a href="http://www.dpl.ca">www.dpl.ca</a><br>
<a href="mailto:gorhamj@dplcore.com">gorhamj@dplcore.com</a><br>
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506.532.8714 (w)<br>
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