Hardware

Hi,

I'm currently looking into building / purchasing a system to run m0n0wall on and that can do 100mbyte/s WAN <-> LAN throughput , but there are some questions I couldn't find answers for.

If I went for the Intel Atom with 945 chipset platform

• would M0n0wall benefit from a dual core Atom CPU?
• what NIC card would be a good choice, since there seem to be no dual NIC Atom boards?
• are there any good cases that allow for passive / silent cooling?

Would M0n0wall run on Nvidia's Ion Platform? If so, how does power consumption differ between Ion and 945?

Any insight you could give me is greatly appreciated.