Hardware
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Hey
I am looking for some hardware but don’t quite know what to get here my requirement .
Wan port ( PPPOE) router in bridge mode
Lan Port
IPS on
Blocking of catagories such as
Porn ect
Only needs to support speed of 200mb on wan
No vpn needed
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You might want to consider those mini PCs that are popular these days. They often come with multiple Ethernet ports. I believe there's another recent thread here, discussing hardware. The one I have, as described in sig, is little more than coasting. Even at over 900 Mb down, from speedtest, is only at about 10% CPU load.
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@uber949 That's not a high bar, to be honest...I'd say a Netgate 2100 would be fine.
re: porn blocking, there are a couple of approaches. Using pfBlocker to download one of the "adult" lists is a very large download...as in over 1 GB of disk space to extract. I'd recommend the 2100 Max to get an SSD if you were going to do a lot of disk writing.
Instead I would consider using DNS forwarding and one of the adult filters such as 1.1.1.3.
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So the actual PPPoE link is off-loaded? Or does pfSense need to terminate the PPPoE session?
Is there a power or noise requirement?
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yes the pppoe connection is being handed by sky router in bridge mode use one of Ethernet ports then input creds in pfsence. I think anyways :)
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Hmm, so it's FTTP? Unless it's maybe the high speed end of g.fast?
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@uber949 2100 or the new 4200
