pfSense Router recommendations?
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@stephenw10 said in pfSense Router recommendations?:
@VerticalTechnik said in pfSense Router recommendations?:
We use a lot of inhouse data-traffic between Workstations and Synology-NAS, 3 different Proxmox (Mail-Server, Bookkeeping-Management & Ticketing-Tool).
If those things are on the same subnet then that traffic doesn't need to pass the firewall and it only ever carries the 100Mbps WAN traffic. In which case the 2100 is more than sufficient.
But if you have separate internal subnets the firewall has to route between then you'd probably want more power. Like the 4200.
Steve
Yes they are on the same subnet.
Finally I have found the product name of our current Firewall-Hardware, which seems to be not bad: Varia IPFire Komplettsystem - APU4D4, 4 GB RAM, 16 GB mSATA SSD, rot -
Ok so that's just a rebranded PCEngines APU4. Those are close to 1Gbps throughput with pfSense.
If you're only moving traffic that is routed via the WAN and that's only 100Mbps the 2100 can easily handle that. Even with a VPN.
The 4200 would give you more 'future proofing' if you plan to upgrade your WAN or if you decide to separate your internal resources into different subnets and need to route that.
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@stephenw10 Good day Stephen..
How would you connect the Netgate 4200:
Port1 = LAN ?
Port2 = WAN ?
Port3 = DMZ ?Regards, Tim
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That would work.
The default config for any Netgate device uses the first port as WAN. I would always recommend using that because it makes reinstalling or resetting far easier.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/netgate-4200/io-ports.html#networking-portsSo:
Port1 = WAN
Port2 = LAN
Port3 = DMZ
Port4 = WiFi perhaps
