Would this work well
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The wan connection is 20mbps and that is barley maxed out. I am going with the 4gb model and a msata 30gb
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with only 20Mb/s on the wan, the D525 will work very well. Its nice if you can get one for a very low price?
But if the price isn't low, maybe yeah - get a newer board.
I'm not sure what prices you are getting?
I run dual core atom on a 25/5 connection and its idling.
I'd say your decision should be based on price.
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the D525 is going for $220.00 near where I live
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Far too expensive if thats USD.
Where do you live?
I assume you are ordering online?
Mind dropping the link here?
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thats Canadian but the dollor almost equal So what bored would you recommend that would work with Pf 2.1
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=506&item_id=047726
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You pay a premium for Supermicro but they do work well.
Yes, you'll have no worries at 20Mbps with any of the options you've listed.
Whilst it's technically possible to run Snort, Squid and HAVP from a flash install it will require some tuning. Save yourself some hassle and boot from a hard drive.Steve
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Well - The problem for you isn't the board exactly. Its the price.
The thread here has someone complaining about the D525 because he can "only" pull 600Mb/s or so through it.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=42853.0
So obviously, for you, bandwidth isn't the issue.
I'd simply ask people here what can you buy for $100 or so that will handle at least 20MB/s, then pick the most capable board in that list.
Also, when you say D525, are you talking about just the Motherboard, or are you talking about a complete system, in the case and ready to go?
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You pay a premium for Supermicro but they do work well.
Yes, you'll have no worries at 20Mbps with any of the options you've listed.
Whilst it's technically possible to run Snort, Squid and HAVP from a flash install it will require some tuning. Save yourself some hassle and boot from a hard drive.Steve
So just to confirm going with the http://store.netgate.com/APU1C4.aspx with a msata will support Snort, Squid and HAVP with out any issue.
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Storage: Boot from SD card (connected through USB), external USB or m-SATA SSD. 1 SATA data + power connector.
I wouldn't get that APU if I had other choices and space wan't an issue.
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Yes, as far as I know you can run a full install on the mSATA in the APU and then have full access to all packages. However I don't have an APU so I advise you to read some of the relevant threads on the forum before purchase. Better, contact Netgate and ask, I'm sure they'll be able to answer any questions you have.
Steve
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=79408.0
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=59555 -
Something like this would work well for you, is fanless, reasonably fast, cheap, reliable, can be used with a normal SSD or HDD, is well supported by pfsense, will easily take a full install, can be hooked right up to a keyboard and monitor easily for troubleshooting when problems arise.
And its cheap…. And much more capable than that APU.
Depends how important it is to you to have a tiny case.
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And Intel NICs vs. Realtek - No contest
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The more obscure the better to the average person, less others will mess with it and the less it looks like a computer the better. (stuff keeps getting Royally "ugh" tired of fixing stuff)
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Yep - Thats true. Small is nice if its your goal to keep others from seeing it.
I use a baseball bat and threats of physical harm to keep people out of mine.
But hiding it might also work.
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Im am not there its for someone else just been asked to come up with something. and the odder the solution the better so if I can get away with the apu great but it must run those plug in if i am going that route.
