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CPU-wise I would say it will be fine.

However I would not want to use Realtek NICs in my home gateway personally, as I have found them to be less than satisfactory.

I would look for a 1GHz Via mobo on eBay and pair it with a dual port Intel Pro/1000MT or similar in the PCI slot for a much more reliable gateway (assuming you only need 2NICs - for a third you could use the onboard NIC, which is often a Via chipset 10/100 NIC on the older models, or get the quad port NIC, but these are more expensive).

If you are really bothered about noise & power I assume this is for home use - so the lower clocked Via chips should be sufficient. I don't run Astaro though so you should check yourself first...
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Bad choice for a low power server... it has the same issue as the Atom: the 30w chipsets.
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CPU-wise I would say it will be fine.

However I would not want to use Realtek NICs in my home gateway personally, as I have found them to be less than satisfactory.

I would look for a 1GHz Via mobo on eBay and pair it with a dual port Intel Pro/1000MT or similar in the PCI slot for a much more reliable gateway (assuming you only need 2NICs - for a third you could use the onboard NIC, which is often a Via chipset 10/100 NIC on the older models, or get the quad port NIC, but these are more expensive).

If you are really bothered about noise & power I assume this is for home use - so the lower clocked Via chips should be sufficient. I don't run Astaro though so you should check yourself first...
I really hate the onboard crap that passes for NICs these days, I really do. But this is one of the very few cases where you won't benefit at all from discrete ones unless you've got a real network setup to go along with it (VLANs, jumbo frames, QoS tagging, whatever). The bandwidth you need for the internet is way too low for it to matter.
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I really hate the onboard crap that passes for NICs these days, I really do. But this is one of the very few cases where you won't benefit at all from discrete ones unless you've got a real network setup to go along with it (VLANs, jumbo frames, QoS tagging, whatever). The bandwidth you need for the internet is way too low for it to matter.
The discrete NIC would help in reliability and some minor CPU offloading...
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The discrete NIC would help in reliability and some minor CPU offloading...
Can't argue with reliability I guess.

But TOE on 100Mbit (fastest consumer internet I know of) won't save more than 1% CPU (except on an Atom, in which case you'd be limited to having only one discrete NIC anyway). It might even hurt, because creating/destroying TCP connections uses more CPU cycles with it than without it.
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I never imagined the chipset would consume so much power. For ethernet I dont need the enterprise features for a small home Astaro firewall.
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The chipset is the reason why all the consumer Atom boards are pretty useless right now. If Intel would pair up a more modern, low power chipset with the Atom it would add maybe $10 to the board price but instantly make it THE board for pretty much any low power application. As it stands Atom is pretty useless.

The enterprise features are not really why I would avoid Realtek NICs - it is because they are crap. Onboard NICs are usually a reasonable bet for a gateway - just get some Via or Marvell based ones if you can't find a reasonable board with Intels.
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