I can see your point, so actually I have changed my plans a little. I am now aiming for the following:<br><br>E6500 Pentium Dual Core<br>Intel DB43LD motherboard<br>2x2Gb of memory.<br><br>This combination should allow me to run the servers virtualized with KVM (It handles VT-d and VT-x). I will for the time being create the following 3 virtual servers: The router and Mythtv Backend stable and Mythtv dev branch.<br>
I will also have my frontends boot via LAN from an image also located on this server. This way I can easely switch between stable and development without breaking something. Its a little bit more than I thought of first, but by reading a lot of these posts I figure this is the path to go.<br>
But thanks for the pfsense link, I didn't know about it. I will definitely have a look at it.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Ole Nissen <br><br><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Ole Nissen wrote: <br>
<font color="#660066">> Hi All. <br>> <br>> My backend let out its smoke, and dont do anything no more. I will need a <br>> new server for my backend, and it shouldn't draw to much current, but still <br>
> be able to commercial flagging. <br>> <br>> I also have an old VIA epia acting as a NAS and router, this I also want to <br>> have included in my new server. <br>> <br>> To sum up, the server should do: <br>
> <br>> Routing of my lan <br>> Usenet <br>> Squeezebox server <br>> mysql <br>> mythtv backend <br>> Serve webpages <br>> NAS <br>> <br>> I dont think those a very hard tasks, so will the following setup be <br>
> sufficient, or be the best choice for me, with power consumtion in mind: <br>> <br>> Pentium E5300 2 MB (Intel Boxed) <br>> ASUS P5KPL-AM EPU motherboard <br>> Kingston ValueRAM hukommelse 2Gb DDR2 Sd <br>
> <br></font></font></font><blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">My advice: DONT use the same box for your router and your back end. Leave your </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">VIA EPIA as your router, load something like <a href="http://pfsense.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://pfsense.org/</a> on it*. </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">You want your router to be available at all times and still working when your </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Mythbox is undergoing upgrades/commflagging/etc. </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">It also makes good sense to have your router/firewall on a different box to </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">anything else as this provides an extra stage of isolation from the Internet. I </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">wouldn't want any of the boxes here to have direct access to the Internet. </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">*My box doesn't even have a disk in it. A 2GB CF card is more than ample. Draws 10W. </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">-- </font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Mike Perkins </font></font><br>
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