hardware recommendation

creation2

Hi i looking to buy some hardware to install pfsence on and was looking for recommendations.

The firewall will be running the following
Dual Wan
Site2Site VPN
Web traffic filtering
DHCP
DNS

i have been looking at netgate own hardware but see what else is on the market.

Thanks

JKnott

@creation2

I bought a Qotom mini PC. See sig for details.

stephenw10

What will the bandwidth on the WANs be?

creation2

@stephenw10

100MB / 100MB

JKnott

@creation2

The Qotom PC I bought is more than sufficient for that. However, newer models provide 2.5 Gb Ethernet ports, which might be considered, depending on your plans.

dotdash

@creation2
Most anything you get these days should meet you requirements without a problem. For web filtering, I'd use something like OpenDNS rather than run it on the firewall. I like the PC Engines APU boxes. I stopped buying Chinese mini pc's after some failures and noticing some of the 'Intel' nics had Realtech mac addresses...

stephenw10

@creation2 said in hardware recommendation:

@stephenw10

100MB / 100MB

Assuming that's 100Mbps (not 100MegaBytes) then, yeah, almost anything can do that.

Steve

creation2

@stephenw10

Yes sorry 100Mbs Down and 100Mbs UP dedicated line