Ebay refurbished Pfsense Box
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New here. Retired firefighter. New to networking and trying to secure my camera system and network a little better than a Walmart router/firewall. I am looking at a ebay refurbished system. Probably Dell sff model. Any recommendations on processors to use? Would like a system in the 200 or less price range. Will have to order the nic and add on.
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Most any of those refurb/used SFF systems will work. Intel NIC's are prefferred but if they don't include one just make sure you can add a card.
If you want to future proof your purchase make sure the CPU supports AES-NI as that's what will be needed in a future release of pfSense.
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I'll check into what cpu supports that and proceed. Thanks.
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Got off track and looking at this processor for a build. I'd think it would be plenty for my needs. Intel Celeron G3930
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Also, I don't need an OS because Pfsense is stand alone correct?
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Got off track and looking at this processor for a build. I'd think it would be plenty for my needs. Intel Celeron G3930
Should, what is your connection speed and what, if any, packages do you plan on running?
Also, I don't need an OS because Pfsense is stand alone correct?
pfSense is all you need.
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Connection speed is only 120 megs. I run a Blue Iris camera system on it. Will probably only be running about 10 cams on it. VPN definitely. Haven't investigated any other packages. I'm sure I'll tinker with them. Typically have about 20 connections on the network between kids, video games, tablets, TV's, streamsmart box, and phones.
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Will be running 8 gigs of memory and a 120 ssd most likely.
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That will all be serious overkill but would definitely be future proof.
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Will be running 8 gigs of memory and a 120 ssd most likely.
You should be good with 4 gigs. Even a small sized SSD will be fine. You wouldn't need more than a couple of gigs. If you have an old hard drive or laptop drive laying around then use that.
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Thank you for all your help.
