Need cheapest humanly available hardware to run pfsense
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Thanks for the help in finding some models.. but I am in the US so shipping from UK may be $$$.
I will look for those models on Ebay.com US and see if I find something low power wattage for Home/ SOHO/ SMB.
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Thanks for the help in finding some models.. but I am in the US so shipping from UK may be $$$.
If you are in the USA you can also easily watch out to the netgate store and go with a APU variant for this
perhaps.I will look for those models on Ebay.com US and see if I find something low power wattage for Home/ SOHO/ SMB.
Would be also a fine deal because the VPN card can be choosen to one that is available in the pfSense
or netgate store (Soekris vpn1411) if needed. -
I am wondering if there is some kind of "low power" mode / speed step that can be done on PFS like this thing for Fans. https://www.hexhound.com/quiet-the-fan-on-your-pfsense-watchguard-firewall/
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https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=25011.0
Why is this thread for the x5500e peak closed?In addition that thread does not cover the X5500e which is identical to the x750e and similar. The original X-Peak covered in that thread is a different beast. See the docs page.
Steve
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https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=25011.0
Why is this thread for the x5500e peak closed?In addition that thread does not cover the X5500e which is identical to the x750e and similar. The original X-Peak covered in that thread is a different beast. See the docs page.
Steve
You mean this - https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox
That is how I reached the Peak thread I linked to. x550e / 750e core thread is open but Peak thread is closed.
Someone said its just more powerful, and you are saying its a different beast.. Please explain/ help/ clarify.
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https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox
I read thru the steps here for x-core-e and although I am technically savvy I am a bit iffy as I may not have/ or be doing this on the right hardware / cables and that could get me stuck.Anyone here from the Bay Area done this before/ has the cables etc, I wouldnt mind a spotting buddy.
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I know this topic is quite old, but I'd like to add my own & successful try to build a low-cost pfSense router.
In detail it was just projected to be an upgrade to an old D-Link 524 in a mechatronics lab envoirment, wit just a few features - like static IP assignment of clients via their MAC adress & MAC-Whitelisting as well as blocking access to the internet from or to the lab equipment [including several Siemens Siematic PLCs, a Kubota robot arm, Several printers and a professional 3D Printer], but not the PCs.
The D-Link was used as an AP instead, this saving the cost of buying a wifi card that isn't faster anyway...
[I hope 802.11ac support and drivers for the Intel 7260ac will soon come!].I used an ASRock J1900M Mainboard [€ 40],
an LC-Power 1400 Case w/ 250W PSU [€ 40],
3 Realtek 811x NICs with PCIe x1 [€ 5 each]
as well as a Corsair ValueRAM 2x 2GB DDR3-1333 Kit [€ 30]
and a Transcend 32GB 2,5" SSD [€ 20]Which totaled around € 145 in parts and € 150 with shipping.
Since it neither needed VPN or any crypto handling besides it's HTTPS web interface, performance is sufficient.
On the WAN side, this unit just goes straight into a Cable CPE with roughly 150M/10M, and it can fully saturate that [before the D-Link capped it with it's 100M ports...This setup was easy to deploy and fully satisfied the customer's needs, as it was just the needed and reasonable priced upgrade to a customer/SoHo router and while being cheaper than the famous Fritz!Box routers, it had significantly more features and didn't have arbitrary and artificial limitations [like MAC-Whitelisting only on the Wireless interface and limited to 25 devices like the D-Link].
Sadly, with some of those cheap ASRock boards being in low supply, espechally the QC5000M [same board, but with an AMD A4-5000, thus having AES-Ni], the few offers on Amazon ramp up prices to 300% or more - at least in Germany.
But I'm pretty shure some Celeron J4xxx or J5xxx as well as potentially upcoming, low-end Ryzen-based SoCs will fill the gap without getting too pricy.
