Untangle Guest OS Stability

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Asgorath

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I'm thinking of running Untangle as a rerouter on my WHS machine.

The WHS machine is pretty beefy... AMD X2 2.6Ghz, 2GB memory, fast hard drives, etc... Dual AMD NICs.

I realize Untangle prefers intel NICs, so I'll get a Pro1000GT in there to make untangle happy.

Now the question is...what issues am I potentially going to run into with this? I've heard some people say they've had stability problems with untangle as a guest OS. What do you think?

If need be, I can put untangle up on a P3 class Optiplex Dell I have laying around. I believe they use onboard intel NICs..but if need be I'll put a standalone NIC in. I'd prefer to not go that route if the other route will work well for a couple reasons:
1) Trying to reduce the number of 'always on' computers. The electricity bill at my house is getting out of hand
2) Reduce heat. I'm putting the computers in the garage and it's getting hot enough as it is.
3) Right now I only have one drop from the house to the detached garage. A standalone server means I'm going to need another drop. Not a killer, but just more work for me to do.

So what are your opinions on this. Should I give it a go? Or suck it up and set up the standalone server? I mainly want this box to act as a beefier router (read lots of torrenting) and a good QoS mechanism so my room mates can play lag free gaming and have fast internet while the iNet pipe is being heavily utilized by my website, FTP site, and other served applications.
 
The Untangle for Windows is really more of a quick sales pitch tool to show someone what it looks like, and "turn it on" on their network for a few hours and illustrate content filtering, blocking of porn, instant messengers, etc.

I've played with it...pretty neat how it does the magic in instantly making itself the gateway...sorta...with the spoofing.

If you plan on beating on this box with torrent loads 'n such....I'd definitely go with a dedicated box. I don't see a VM'd box running inside of Windows being all that responsive. Maybe if you ESXi your AMD rig..and split up WHS and Untangle.
 
I have had a dedicated install of UT running in VMware Server on top of Server 2008. It worked fairly well but I couldn't get it to automatically power on correctly when there was a power failure or I rebooted the server. I would recommend a dedicated box with a P4 2GHz+ CPU and 1GB of RAM.
 
Guess I'll go the dedicated route. I have some P4 hardware laying around I can toss together.
 
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