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      giacombum
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      I would like to update my home setup (based on just a Fritz box and a RPi for pinhole) using dedicated firewall powered by pfsense, a managed switch and a wireless access point.

      I'm in Italy, I have a 1Gigabit fiber connection that in the near future will be updated to 2.5 Gigabit (and who knows about 10...): I was searching for a passive mini PC like Protection or Qotom, but the first doesn't seem to offer 2.5G Ethernet, don't know about Qotom...

      Do you think is possible and also a good idea to search for some mini PC with a couple of 10G ports? I can connect one to the ONT and the other to the managed switch in order to create different VLANs.

      Thanks in advance!

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        fireodo
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        @giacombum said in 10G mini PC?:

        Do you think is possible and also a good idea to search for some mini PC with a couple of 10G ports?

        What about Netgate 4100
        not 10G but 2,5G. For 10G I guess you have to build something yourself.

        Regards,
        fireodo

        Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
        SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
        pfsense 2.7.2 CE
        Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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          rcoleman-netgate Netgate @fireodo
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          @fireodo The 6100 would qualify as multiple 10G ports.

          Ryan
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          • fireodoF
            fireodo @rcoleman-netgate
            last edited by fireodo

            @rcoleman-netgate said in 10G mini PC?:

            @fireodo The 6100 would qualify as multiple 10G ports.

            Ah, OK - mea culpa, I have overseen that ...

            Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
            SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
            pfsense 2.7.2 CE
            Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              If you actually have a 10Gbps WAN link you would likely want something a lot more powerful to be able to fully use it.
              Or consider running TNSR instead of pfSense.

              Steve

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