SG-1000 microFirewall Optical Illusion
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Wow. Over 100 Mbps throughput. Released just in time to be obsoleted by the average cable internet bandwidth offering.
There are plans to improve the bandwidth, but current technical limitations have to be overcome. Gigabit nics are on there for a reason.
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@KOM:
I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
;)
In all seriousness though, I have messaged pfSense employees saying that exact thing. Encouraging forum members to participate by creating educational threads focused on current hardware/features would be great.
Very often, people mention the community around a project being a major influence when deciding what product to use.
I agree, we could experiment with some neat things like that.
FWIW, I started toying around with the idea of recognizing pfSense Gold members in their forum bio again. Hopefully I can make some headway on that.
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I like it, I wonder how it will compare to the upcoming Minnow Board.
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@KOM:
I think they should start an Evangelist program where they give free units to any forum member with more than +4000 posts and +468 karma…
Here. Let me fix that for you…
... and 0 smite.
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This thing looks awesome.
I have a Supermicro A1SRi-2558F in an Akasa fanless case. 8GB RAM and an SSD. I use the device as the router for our FiOS 150/150 at our house. There are 6 of us and a lot of devices. I run Squid / SquidGuard to keep track of the kids and run OpenVPN so I can easily connect from work.
I know my current system is probably overkill but would the microfirewall be too under-powered? It would be neat to sell my system and replace it with this super low power device that still runs pfSense.
Chad
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With things like the ER-X for ~$50, I dunno if I can justify this SG-1000. I am glad to see new offerings though.
The Edge router line is very interesting and may meet the needs of some folks but the gui is sadly lacking and trying to use the command line is very frustrating when you only do it a couple times a year. Wife took one look at it and said "nope" keep looking, not because she couldn't deal with it but because she is retired and doesn't want to have to.
I feel I gave my Edge Routera reasonable effort hoping to have a cheap, low power and fast replacement for my SmoothWall on an old Dell GX-110 SFF box but the amount of effort required when changes needed made was just too high. I initially moved to pfSense on my old Dell, replaced the Dell with an HP 7900 SFF and now have an SG-2440 that met all my requirements but cheap. On the other hand it is dead simple to use and the wife feels she could keep it working as easily as a consumer grade router if I keel over.
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This thing looks awesome.
I have a Supermicro A1SRi-2558F in an Akasa fanless case. 8GB RAM and an SSD. I use the device as the router for our FiOS 150/150 at our house. There are 6 of us and a lot of devices. I run Squid / SquidGuard to keep track of the kids and run OpenVPN so I can easily connect from work.
I know my current system is probably overkill but would the microfirewall be too under-powered? It would be neat to sell my system and replace it with this super low power device that still runs pfSense.
Chad
Maybe the 512MB of RAM would be a limitation and perhaps the 150Mbps+ statement might put it at the top of its capabilities with your FiOS. If I still had my 50x5 cable connection I'd be all over it though.
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What's USB OTG for?
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I wonder what the J8 header is for…Maybe some gpio pins.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+OTG&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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https://www.google.com/search?q=USB+OTG&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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Thanks for posting the link because I don't know how to use Google.
Now, all the sarcasm aside, I guess the original question was, How is a USB OTG port on something that's essentially a mini computer different from a traditional USB port that has been a fixture on computers for over a decade now? What USB device can I connect to this USB OTG port that I cannot connect to a USB port not labeled OTG on any other computer?
OTG could mean this device can be powered via the USB port. Can it?
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most arm devices are usb-slave only (like you cell phone). usb-otg means they can be both slave or master / your average pc can not be a slave, it is always a master ( the terminology is probably wrong, but thats how i perceive the whole OTG thing)
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What USB device can I connect to this USB OTG port that I cannot connect to a USB port not labeled OTG on any other computer?
An example might be connecting it to a regular PC and being able to mount the filesystem, in addition to being able to use the port as a regular USB port; i.e connecting flash storage or something. I don't know what it's for, really, since there's already a USB console port next to it as far as I can tell. Maybe for firmware updates or something?
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Wow. Over 100 Mbps throughput. Released just in time to be obsoleted by the average cable internet bandwidth offering.
There are plans to improve the bandwidth, but current technical limitations have to be overcome. Gigabit nics are on there for a reason.
Cool! I've been craving a portable pfSense firewall/router for traveling. The SG-1000 will fit the bill if it's beefy enough to install a few packages like pfBlocker. I'm looking to improve my travel router/firewall/AP setup. I currently use a Linksys WRT-54GS with dd-WRT for travel.
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The Edge router line is very interesting and may meet the needs of some folks but the gui is sadly lacking and trying to use the command line is very frustrating when you only do it a couple times a year.
Since Chris switched over to Ubiquiti, i hope he can get involved in the GUI development, to see a better one in the Edge-Line.
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Asterisk already runs great on Raspi3 :)
But now you will be also able to install a pfSense on that small SG-1000 and set it up as a small Captive Portal
into existing networks, also a separate Radius Server is able to set up fast and/or a log server that is secured
"like" a firewall will be nice to see in many companies to save their log files, also able to think about is you may
need sometimes a smaller or or little device for doing sniffing or with some network tools measuring from an
other point in the network likes you PC or laptop so that small SG-1000 is really interesting for many peoples
as I see it right.The Edge router line is very interesting and may meet the needs of some folks but the gui is sadly lacking and trying to use the command line is very frustrating when you only do it a couple times a year.
they have some nice small to bigger router devices that would be fine rocking together with pfSense in
my eyes as a firewall only option and for sure it will be also looking likes a real router or firewall.Since Chris switched over to Ubiquiti, i hope he can get involved in the GUI development, to see a better one in the Edge-Line.
Wich Chris was switching over to what? Is Chris Buechler now working at UBNT now? Or do you mean
he is switching over to that smaller UBNT routers? Would you please so friendly and tell me something about. -
@BlueKobold:
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Since Chris switched over to Ubiquiti, i hope he can get involved in the GUI development, to see a better one in the Edge-Line.
Wich Chris was switching over to what? Is Chris Buechler now working at UBNT now? Or do you mean
he is switching over to that smaller UBNT routers? Would you please so friendly and tell me something about.in case you missed this: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=114659.0;all
