Hardware for 200/200 home network
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From pfSense:
101-500 Mbps
Server class hardware with PCI-e network adapters, or newer desktop hardware with PCI-e network adapters. No less than a modern Intel or AMD CPU clocked at 2.0 GHz.I think you should think about atom C2758 or i3/i5/i7 systems.
Ref: https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/#requirements
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Hmmm… so it looks like it's going to be more expensive than I previously thought. Does anyone have a similar link and could share his/her specification?
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A C2758 will do it but depending on your ambient temperature it might not run fanless. It will, however, run very well with a very low speed (inaudible) fan.
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I was going to buy one of the 2758s but i wanted something that could be used as a HTPC or something later on.. Not that the 2758 couldn't i just wanted a more general purpose machine incase I don't use PFsense one day. I think i am going to go the i3 route.
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A C2758 will do it but depending on your ambient temperature it might not run fanless. It will, however, run very well with a very low speed (inaudible) fan.
I Jason,
I remember you built a unit with M350 case. Can you share some details? Like fan dimension (type brand), PSU, HDD. I am going to build mine.
Recommended EU stores are welcome.
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There is no separate PSU (eg. PicoPSU) inside the case as the board includes the ability to be powered from 12V. The fan is a 40mm Noctua with the low-noise adapter (I was using a Zalman FanMate but there was no good way to mount it in the case so I ditched it). The "ducting" you see in the case is a manila file folder I cut to size so that the air flow would move across the CPU, not one bank of RAM.
As an aside, I really like this box. I'm planning on buying two more of these as rack mounts, converting this one over, and then making a little home VM lab (with 24 cores & 96GB of RAM). They aren't screaming fast boxes but they're more than adequate for running anything this side of SQL or Exchange.
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Jason,
are you using an HDD, SSD or running pfSense from usb thumb?
My idea is to built one, with a 80GB SSD, 8GB RAM, running Snort under VPN, 20/1 adsl.
I know it is an overkill but I'd like to built something which support higher upcoming bandwidth.
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Full install on a high-end SDXC card (Samsung Pro) in a low-profile USB adapter.
If you're not using squid you don't really need a fixed drive, though if you wanted to add one, the M350 case comes with a bracket to hold a 2.5" drive.
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I am not sure to run squid but I don't want to limit the system, I will buy a SSD unit, they are chip nowadays.
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It's your money. If you think you might need/want a full SSD in the future then I'd say go for it.
No, I'm in the US.
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you wont get away with cheap for something like that. I just built one with a c2558 quad core 2.4ghz with 4gb kingston ecc ram and pro 2500 intel ssd. was around $500. But as far as my knowledge the atom is the only viable fan less cpu.
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you wont get away with cheap for something like that. I just built one with a c2558 quad core 2.4ghz with 4gb kingston ecc ram and pro 2500 intel ssd. was around $500. But as far as my knowledge the atom is the only viable fan less cpu.
Did you built the unit using M350 case? Can you post some photo?
I will not buy a cheap unit, I will search for a 80/120GB unit, intel.
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Unless you are going to use CPU / IO intensive packages, the APU would be sufficient.
From my experience it is good in normal usage (home-usage, what do you expect) for around 450 Mbps single direction, 225Mbps/synchronous.
Some tests i did:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=59555.msg405268#msg405268
Messages up/down of the linked one for other/more tests.Some tests i did with the APU as Wireless Access Point:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=74672.msg411023#msg411023
