Want to covert to small soekris type setup
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I've been running a low power PIII coppermine (heat/noise) mini-tower PC with pfSense for a while now, but I want to get away from that and just have something like a Soekris type case. My needs are pretty minimal - this is just a home FW, no VPN, running DHCP service, 16Mbs down/2Mbs up. Only about half dozen systems on the LAN. Not doing anything fancy with it.
So, my question then is, based upon my needs, and maybe even considering a little bit of future proofing, what small hardware platform is recommended?
I'm looking at the Soekris 5501 and it looks pretty sweet. Is this overkill?
Is there a minimum processor speed and RAM I should consider with one of these type of systems?Should I only be considering Soekris or Alix boards?
(I did a little searching on the forums but still didn't really get a good feel for answering my Q's)
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Obviously using the wrong search words - there have been a great number of threads on hardware, including this one.
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Already saw that thread. Didn't really help.
Based on some other information from other sites, I've gone ahead and decided on an Alix board.Only Q's I need to figure out now is:
- How big of a CF card do I want to get
- Can I just import my current config backup onto the new Alix setup
I imagine that these Q's have come up a thousand times already, so off I go. 8)
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- How many packages do you plan on installing ;)
- Assuming you're on the same version of pfSense that should work fine
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Just the one install (home FW)
I got everything put together. Found a spare 256MB card and loaded it on that.
Restored my current pfsense config onto it and it took it fine (it was one rev before the embedded version that I just installed)I'm up and running! Love it!
