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VMware Server or Compact Firewall?

I’m tired of trying to do a million things with DD-WRT, and feel that 100Mbps on the WAN link may not be fast enough soon with DOCSIS 3.0.  So I’ve come up with two options:

  1. Create a small router/firewall with an embedded board, like a Soekris kit and end up with something like this:
  2. Create a beastly VMware server using more commodity hardware and virtualize my router (my switch supports VLAN tagging).

What would you do?