I use 2 identical machines:
They are locally manufactured servers (by a company in Greece) based on:
- TYAN motherboard (Toledo i3210W/i3200R S5211)
- Intel processor ( Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz)
- 4 x 1 GB RAM (800 MHz)
- 2 x 1 TB SATA hard disks (Western Digital), combined on RAID controller
- Adaptec Raid controller (2420SA)
The first machine is used as router, firewall, gateway, ntp server, dns server, dhcp server, vpn server, http proxy (with a big cache) and gateway server.
The second machine is used as file server, internal mail server, virus checker and jabber server.
I have almost 40 users on 25 locally installed machines. The 20 machines are running ubuntu and the other 5 windows xp.
The 2 machines are having very little cpu utilization (almost 5-10 %) and the memory is always to 10 -20%.
So they are much 'bigger' than my needs.
The router routes traffic of 6 sub-networks.
- Users pcs for file and application sharing
- Ip telephony (external server based on elastix), with almost 100 ip-phones, 30 analogues and 10 wi-fi phones
- Wireless network for guest and ip phones
- Internal network in the control room (backup server, monitor server)
- Ip Cameras network
- External network, with 3 ADSL lines and one wireless line
I think that the above describe the two ebox servers and the jobs they called to bring out.