Need to uses an old netbook for PF does it have the power i need??
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That computer with those NICs should be able to handle a 80Mbit symmetric connection, so it should be able to handle an 11Mbit connection with ease. Make sure though that you get a quality USB Ethernet and especially one support in FreeBSD 8.1 and/or 8.3.
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Ya i figured it could handle the connection what im worried about are VPNs and the packages, but i guess thats going to have to come with testingĀ :-\
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That should have decent enough horsepower to handle 11Mbit of VPNs, packages might depend on what you want to run. Something like squid, sure. Snort? Maybe, maybe not, depends on the rules you want.
USB ethernet is crap - that's going to be your weak point. If you have a VLAN capable switch you'd be better off using a VLAN for WAN and a VLAN for LAN both on the same physical NIC. But I suppose if you had that kind of gear on hand you wouldn't be forced to run pfSense on a netbook. :-)
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True True. Ya right now the switch i have is an old 100/10 5 porter, a cheap little thing, if i can find a decently priced switch that can do vlan then sure i will get one but i have to keep costs down. i will look around.
When it comes to snort i may run it may not like i said i will have to do some testingā¦
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True True. Ya right now the switch i have is an old 100/10 5 porter, a cheap little thing, if i can find a decently priced switch that can do vlan then sure i will get one but i have to keep costs down. i will look around.
When it comes to snort i may run it may not like i said i will have to do some testingā¦
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It is -not- hard to find -very- cheap older switches that'll do vlans.Ā Like an HP 2524, I see 'em on ebay for $25 to $40 often (it's common for the shipping to be an order of magnitude higher than the item cost, but they're still just a 1u box.)
Of course, at that point, you could also just get a -very- cheap older desktop that you can toss a PCI nic in to.Ā There's generally very little reason a standard home install can't be done for under $50, unless you live in an area where shipping gets expensive.
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ya i know it can be done cheaply, but space is also a factor, i wont have a lot of space. All i need it to do is protect my stuff and connect me to my home network over VPN, for a little bit of time. I might order a switch off ebay for cheap, i have some time before i have to change locals so i am still planning a little.
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One last thing should i upgrade the RAM or is more cpu bond at this point??
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Memory is for storing states ā¦ the more memory the greater the number of states you can have. I think you are mostly CPU bound if you have a GB or more or memory.
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Ok thanks i will start doing some testing at this point and see how everything works out
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ya i know it can be done cheaply, but space is also a factor, i wont have a lot of space. All i need it to do is protect my stuff and connect me to my home network over VPN, for a little bit of time. I might order a switch off ebay for cheap, i have some time before i have to change locals so i am still planning a little.
Try getting the Mikrotik RB250GS then.Ā It's a cheapish (should be about US$35 new) 5 port Vlan capable gigabit switch in a tiny package (about 5"W x 3"D x 1.5"H).
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hmm interesting will have to take a look.
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