If the article title asks a question, the answer is always NO.

I’d be too embarrassed to go to the dentist with dirty teeth. Definitely brush before.

Corn me up, Snake!

Not much. You can run it with one network card, but you’ll have to run it in trunk mode. That will also limit you to 500 mbps on a gigabit network.

I’ve run with on an old dual-core cpu with 4GB of memory, and it was still able to pump out gigabit speeds.