Best Recommended Hardware for PfSense 2.1

[zohaib]

Hi all,

I am planing to deploy pfSesne 2.1 for 4 WAN link 500Mbps Shared and 4LAN links. kindly suggest me Best hardware for that. Recently i had a very BAD experience, for almost similar needs i purchase Dell PowerEdge r720 with 2 NIC card (8 port gb) but facing issue in installation. Kindly suggest me best Hardware model.

[toysareforboys]

@zohaib:

Hi all,

I am planing to deploy pfSesne 2.1 for 4 WAN link 500Mbps Shared and 4LAN links. kindly suggest me Best hardware for that. Recently i had a very BAD experience, for almost similar needs i purchase Dell PowerEdge r720 with 2 NIC card (8 port gb) but facing issue in installation. Kindly suggest me best Hardware model.

I setup a very similar configuration a few weeks ago:

4 x 300mbps download/10mbps upload WAN connections (on an Intel four port gigabit card)
4 x 1000mbps (gigabit) LAN connections (on the same model card as above, Intel four port gigabit card)

It's running on this system: http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-PRECISION-T5400-WORKSTATION-2x-2-66GHz-QC-16GB-2x-73GB-/380831423599 (the seller upgraded it to 32GB of ram for $60, not sure if it would make any difference or not).

With two of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-4-port-Network-card-PCIe-Pro-1000-PT-Quad-Port-LP-SVR-Adapter-EXP1940PTL-/121265781963

The performance is absolutely mind blowing :)

-Jamie M.