I want to assemble a pfSense server and am seeking recommendations from expert friends.
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@SteveITS said in I want to assemble a pfSense server and am seeking recommendations from expert friends.:
@bmeeks Speed wise yes but not with pfSense CE. :). I honestly do not know how far the 1100/2100 CPU is from a Pi? But I digress…
I wasn't serious with the Pi thing -- just a joke. My point was that just about any hardware these days could handle basic routing fuctions if it only has to work with 12 megabits/sec of actual routed traffic.
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@bmeeks oh I know, I was “yes and”-ing you.
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I read that as more likely 12Mbps per user. Which is obviously more than the total available but may work. OP may want to try bandwidth sharing scheme with dynamic Limiters.
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@bmeeks 12 mbits per user, for 1 person :)
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@mettoal said in I want to assemble a pfSense server and am seeking recommendations from expert friends.:
@bmeeks 12 mbits per user, for 1 person :)
ah- that is different. That was not immediately clear from the post (at least that's not how I interpreted it).
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@mettoal what’s the actual total speed though..? That’s like 95% of your question.
Any packages? Captive portal?
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@mettoal Let me say it another way… under 500 Mbps a 2100 is probably sufficient at least in terms of power.
For headroom/future expansion and I’d guess up to around 4-5 Gbps a 4200 should suffice. Get two 4200s or two of something with 3 NICs in it to use High Availability. 4 NICs if you want the hotel network isolated from guests. (Otherwise that could have its own router etc. Continue with other networks or PCI/credit card, etc)
4200: CPU: Intel Atom C1110 with AVX2, 4-core @ 2.1 GHz, and 4 total NICs
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Would the following hardware be sufficient? for 1500 users my backbone switch 25 gbe support already. ı am looking just server hardware
Processor: Xeon E5-2697A V4
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz
NIC: Intel X710 Da2 10Gbe
SSD: 500 GB Samsung 980 Pro M2 NVMe -
@mettoal ok well 25 Gbps is the complete other end of the scale. :) Perhaps Steve can comment on the upper limits of pfSense related to that CPU but it’s why Netgate developed TNSR.
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@mettoal said in I want to assemble a pfSense server and am seeking recommendations from expert friends.:
E5-2697A V4
Yeah you need something like that to pass 10G if that's what you need to do. 25G is really beyond pfSense for the most part.
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What's the existing load on the 1Gig connection at peak times ? If it's below 100%, then there's your required bandwidth. If it's often maxed out, then you need the 10G link before confirming PfSense hardware.
