A question.
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B"H
I have a small business.
I was highly recommended netgate products - with pfSense.
I'm looking for a firewall 2.5 Gbps ethernet LAN ports with good speed CPU with M.2 slots.
I do not need VPN or high end features. (which add to cost).
Unfortunate I do not see on Netgate website any product that addresses my requirements. I assume that there are many who do not need or plan to VPN or a high-end feature who would take advantage of there was this can of middle end - high in performance and low in high end (that are not so necessary to some) features practical product.
Any suggestion?
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@ychinchol The lowest model to have that supports 2.5Gbps interfaces would be a 4100 I believe.
How does VPN or "high end features" add to cost? What do you mean?
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@ychinchol It's tricky to help without knowing the size of your small business (i.e. number of users, networked devices like phones, wireless, printers, etc). It'd be helpful to know what sort of throughput requirements you'd have too - i.e. uploading large files, downloading large files, streaming, etc.
pfsense software is pretty modular, and doesn't really add to the cost of the product vs the speed of hardware / ram / storage. Like almost all firewalls, there are loads of features but you don't have to use them. pfsense is the same way and anything not used doesn't have to be running using resources.
Are you hoping to do some sort of fast caching requiring an M.2 / NVMe card? Just curious as to the specifics of hardware need.
Keith
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What sort of m.2 slots? What do you need to use them for?
What sort of throughput do you need? What is the available WAN bandwidth?
