Would love to also hear someone's input on this, I have 350Mbps connection, and I want to have a dedicated openvpn rig. SG-2440/4860 ASUS Q87T (BIOS update to F4 is needed) Intel Core i3 (4 Core @3,0GHz) Intel i350-T4 (Quad port NIC) miniPCIe WiFi & mSATA card PicoPSU 160 Watt 8 GB RAM M350 Supermicro C2558/C2758 PicoPSU 160 Watt 8 GB RAM M350 Gigabyte GA-6LISL Intel Xeon E3-1240v3 Intel i350-T4 8 GB RAM M350

Hello, maybe you should take a look on this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=114945.msg639526#msg639526 I wanted to replace the home router with one that is able to perform an OpenVPN client at full line speed. For example, mine can manage a VPN connection up to 120Mbs, while the one of Paint up to almost 300Mbs. The AESNI support helps to reach the same performance with a lower load of the CPU and therefore with a lower heating. Fully loaded, the system consumes just over 10W.

WOW~ , I  never thought about that ,  next time I will try to convert to non-RAID mode. I get T130 with a H730 by my supplier ( NOT directly to Dell) , I told them my requirement , and they give me a hardware list. Actually , I want to buy pfsense  XG-2758 directly , it is more cheaper than T130 , but I can not convince my boss about how to fix machine  when it is malfunction.

It's pf that won't go any faster, but yes, that's the best you can hope for at this time with the packet filter enabled.

@whosmatt: Bummer, but good to know.  I was going to upgrade my workstation @ the office to Windows 10 but I bring a few VLANs into it (for running virtual machines on different segments) and I guess I'll have to wait. Not much point waiting. Even with Server 2012 R2, you're expected to use M$ tools to run VLANs (by setting up a single NIC in a LBBO Team and assigning VLANs to it). It's not exactly a bad idea since not all network chip manufacturers provide tools to configure VLANs and/ or link aggregation. The only issue is that with Windows 10, you can't configure VLANs without Hyper-V role. That means your processor on the workstation will never clock down - Hyper-V forces the processor to always run at the maximum clockspeed to reduce impact on the VMs. Probably not a problem for desktops but it's an issue for laptops.

@BlueKobold: The CF Cards mostly or normally are mounted as "read only" and so not many write cycles will be done. Since version 2.3 the CF cards are now always mounted as "read/write" from bootup for preventing errors during use later. Also this gives a better navigation speed in the Web UI , like before when u must manually change to read/write, or configuration was at the speed of a turtle trough peanut butter. The write cycles are still kept as low as possible thanks to the embedded design, only the mounting is changed. But i have experience more errors that point to the CF, will these are brand new uit the package. Grtz DeLorean

Be able to do 1Gbps throughput WAN/LAN Intel G3260T or a refurbished (used) Intel Xeon E3-12xxv3 ECC RAM A mid ranged Intel Core i3 that supports ECC RAM or the E3-12xxv3 Low profile Is able to realize but often then together with a spinning HDD not really fan less running. Not too expensive To know the real budget is the best for us to give you a dedicated tip that rocks. ASUS Q87T & G3260T without ECC

PC Engines APU2C4 (bundle) would be my 1st choice Jetway NF9HG-2930 (self made) would be my 3rd choice pfSense SG-2440 (bundle) would be my 2nd choice Supermicro A1SRi-2358/2558/2758 last but powerful and more at the cost

@mifronte: I am not trying to compare the ERL to pfSense.  I am just trying to find hardware that can reliably be sourced and be within the price point of the ERL that can run pfSense and still route at wired gigabit speed.  Since the ERL with hardware offloading can route at wired gigabit speed, I was hoping that there was some hardware that can do the same but be able to run pfSense. Just trying to minimize the hardware costs of deploying routers to users with gigabit Internet where I can run pfSense.  I may have to wait to see the price point of the Atom C2358. Edit: Looks like the Atom C2358 is starting at $180 for the Supermicro A1SRI-2358F There doesn't seem to be a use case here then. If all they want is a gigabit capable NAT router, an Asus RT-AC66U would do the job and has far less hassle than the Edge series. What you could sell to them is the idea of a VPN gateway. Just a simple to setup OpenVPN feature and no licensing fees would be worth deploying pfSense for. Any comparable 'branded' device (Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Fortinet, SonicWall etc) in the same performance league would cost more than pfSense hardware.

@guardian: @krackpot: Did you settle on RAM? Been following your choices in your build and would be interested to see how it comes together. I'll let you know how it works when I get the rest of the stuff, still waiting for the MB and PS so it will be awhile before I get to building it, but I did buy the Corsair Vengeance 9-9-9-24.  It was on sale, and the cheapest that my local store had to offer. I promised to report back:  The 9-9-9-24 Memory works just fine. I did however build a different system… went with a little package from China due to cost.  You can see what I got here. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=113308.msg638930#msg638930 So I have one of the 4GB modules from this set: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3L 1600MHz CL9 1.35v SODIMMs (CMSX8GX3M2B1600C9) and a: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD

Maybe something wrong with the disk so that nothing can be written to it?

got it working: Posting for future hackers…. I bought a 4G LTE modem from the official list. I chose the ZTE MF823 because it appears as an ethernet device. Both nix and windows would see it as a network adapter and bring the connection up straight away. But not freebsd. After several attempts at firmware tweaks and whatnot, i stumbled upon this russian thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76363.0 I don't speak russki, but i saw this command in the thread:     "usbconfig -u 0 -a 3 set_config 1" so I started digging a bit. My device appeared like this: ugen1.2: <zte,incorporated>at usbus1 And in the end, this command did the trick: usbconfig -d 1.2 set_config 2 The ue0 adapter appeared: ue0: Ethernet address: 36:4b:50:b7:ef:44 ue0: <usb ethernet="">on cdce0 cdce0: <cdc ethernet="" control="" model="" ecm="">on usbus1 ugen1.2: <zte,incorporated>at usbus1 I could then set the wan interface as ue0 with dhcp, and the interface came up. It's been stable ever since, even across reboots. Unlimited 40/20Mbps for $20 a month... I like it. Imgur album with all the settings and speedtest. http://imgur.com/a/TUa23</zte,incorporated></cdc></usb></zte,incorporated>

got it working: Posting for future hackers…. I bought a 4G LTE modem from the official list. I chose the ZTE MF823 because it appears as an ethernet device. Both nix and windows would see it as a network adapter and bring the connection up straight away. But not freebsd. After several attempts at firmware tweaks and whatnot, i stumbled upon this russian thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=76363.0 I don't speak russki, but i saw this command in the thread:     "usbconfig -u 0 -a 3 set_config 1" so I started digging a bit. My device appeared like this: ugen1.2: <zte,incorporated>at usbus1 And in the end, this command did the trick: usbconfig -d 1.2 set_config 2 The ue0 adapter appeared: ue0: Ethernet address: 36:4b:50:b7:ef:44 ue0: <usb ethernet="">on cdce0 cdce0: <cdc ethernet="" control="" model="" ecm="">on usbus1 ugen1.2: <zte,incorporated>at usbus1 I could then set the wan interface as ue0 with dhcp, and the interface came up. It's been stable ever since, even across reboots. Unlimited 40/20Mbps for $20 a month... I like it. Imgur album with all the settings and speedtest. http://imgur.com/a/TUa23</zte,incorporated></cdc></usb></zte,incorporated>

Great, thanks!

Ok.. so I have installed PFsense onto this machine. I am using the onboard NIC and a USB->Gbe NIC as my WAN connection (I figured the USB2 port would bottleneck the LAN but be fine for 113Mbit WAN). Now I need to learn about the software. I'm following the FAQ and wiki. I would like to know if there is a guide for testing the integrity of my setup once I decide to put it in as my router (check firewall, DNS and what is visible from WAN side etc). Any advice?

@Corn: Thought I'd share this with everyone in this forum, it may be interesting for some (though for most, a bit of an overkill). I wanted some more storage available on my Firebox x750e, but didn't like the idea of installing a very expensive IDE SSD (with a very low throughput), or a bigger CF card. CF card just aren't built for a lot of IOPS, and wear levelling isn't really strong on those things either. I wanted a solution that will last for years. Needed: Firebox x750e (this guide may be compatible with other fireboxes as well. Also, this guide assumes you already flashed the bios. Not sure if it works without flashing the bios first… Pretty sure it doesn't.) Small PCIE SATA controller (needs to be supported by pfsense. I used a Si3132 card) SATA SSD SATA power connector CF Card for installation Null-modem cable small gauge wires soldering iron some sort of plastic card, such as a customer loyalty card a few screws .... Have you tried of the SATA controller doesn't fit the PCI-Express x4 slot right next to it ? Normally a PCI-Express x4 is backwards compatible to lower speed devices. That way, you must not soldered anything, just the Sata power cable to the powersupply. Grtz DeLorean

@webdawg: @lhock98: Hi bro, i just received my new 4 ports router from chinese seller, had been up and running pfsense 2.3.1 for the pass 4-5 days system was very well no hang no lag. total of 4 ports yet i configured 1WAN and 3 LAN all ports running well. here are the spec. power using external dc12v step down tranformer as can see from the picture 1)intel celeron j1900 @2.0ghz 2)2gb ddr3 so-dimm (able to support up to 8gb) 3)8gb msata ssd 4) 4*intel 82583v Gigabit Ethernet Controller 5)onboard 2 msata slot and 3 sata Can you please post where you got it from/ link to it? I am also interested from where the op got said hardware.

I sse where you come from. My sandisk 64GB SSD only uses less than 4GB for my pfsense system.

Yep - one of these is working great in my box!