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    4100 or 6100?

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      paulnye
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      Would the 4100 be fine, or should I go with the 6100?
      30 Unifi APs, 20 x 48 port Unifi switches, (about 350 wired clients, 250 wireless clients)
      Wan1 - 500mb down, 500 up
      Wan2 - 600 down, 50 up
      Looking to use Wan failover and maybe some load balancing
      Also since there is a school, we need to provide some content filtering, perhaps with pfblocker
      We will only do maybe 5 users on VPN
      Would also like to take advantage of IPS

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        keyser Rebel Alliance @paulnye
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        @paulnye said in 4100 or 6100?:

        Would the 4100 be fine, or should I go with the 6100?
        30 Unifi APs, 20 x 48 port Unifi switches, (about 350 wired clients, 250 wireless clients)
        Wan1 - 500mb down, 500 up
        Wan2 - 600 down, 50 up
        Looking to use Wan failover and maybe some load balancing
        Also since there is a school, we need to provide some content filtering, perhaps with pfblocker
        We will only do maybe 5 users on VPN
        Would also like to take advantage of IPS

        The SG-6100 without question for that workload. Yes, the 4100 will handle the linespeed easily, but with the amout of sessions and IPS you need at least a 4 core CPU.

        Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Yes, I agree.
          ~1Gbps routing/NAT/filtering with pfBlocker and Snort/Suricata is definitely a 6100, at least.

          Steve

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