Hardware Recommendation for FIOS
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Hey All,
I going to build 3 PFSense based firewalls. These will be used in a SOHO setting using FIOS at between 50 and 100 Mbps and VPN. Are there any recommendations for a small unit (ITX, PCEngines, Soekris) that could handle this? Ideally I would like something with a small footprint and fanless. Any thoughts? Thanks.
-Eric
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search the forum, its been brought up many times…
Here is where I would start http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
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search the forum, its been brought up many times…
Here is where I would start http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49
I have read that and searched the forums. I was looking for specific board recommendations that are fully compatible and that people have good success with.
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You've thrown VPN in the mix. What VPN throughput are you looking for?
A system capable of 100Mbps VPN is going to be very different to one that just does firewall/NAT at that speed.Steve
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You've thrown VPN in the mix. What VPN throughput are you looking for?
A system capable of 100Mbps VPN is going to be very different to one that just does firewall/NAT at that speed.Steve
10 to 25 Mbps should be fine for VPN. It is mostly used for backups to run and occasional remote desktop.
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Ok, well you kind of fall between two hardwares.
An Alix based box, such as the Netgate, will firewall/NAT at ~85Mbps and VPN ~15Mbps.
An Atom D510 based box will firewall at ~500Mbps and VPN ~50Mps. Example.
Both of these are well tested with pfSense.You may be able to get something that falls in between these such as a VIA 1GHz solution but I don't think I've seen any benchmarks.
Steve
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Awesome. Thanks for the help.
