Pfsense box recommendations
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I'm planning on buying (or building) the cheapest and smallest form factor pfsense box that will have 3 NIC's on it and consumes reasonable power. I just plan to use this for a multi-WAN setup and I think the minimum requirements of pfsense would do. It would just be for home use with less than 10 computers and 2 x 3Mb down/2Mb up WAN connections. I'm thinking 1 Gigabit NIC for the LAN and 2 100Mbps NIC for the 2 WANs.
Do you guys have any recommendations?
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Do you guys have any recommendations?
Related to your named services or use case and number of users it is pretty easy.
- SG-2440 from the pfSense store
- Intel Celeron G3260 @3,2GHZ & SSD or mSATA & 4 GB RAM
- Intel Celeron J1900 box self build or base don a Jetway mainboard
- PC Engines APU1D4 (launched) or APU2B4 (january 2016)
Pending on what is cheap for you, I would go by the APU1D4 board as a fully assembled
box from the Varia-store or another reseller, pre-installed with pfSense, with a mSATA.
~220 € + shippment here in Germany. Would be really good matching your criteria. -
@BlueKobold:
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Related to your named services or use case and number of users it is pretty easy.
- SG-2440 from the pfSense store
- Intel Celeron G3260 @3,2GHZ & SSD or mSATA & 4 GB RAM
- Intel Celeron J1900 box self build or base don a Jetway mainboard
- PC Engines APU1D4 (launched) or APU2B4 (january 2016)
Pending on what is cheap for you, I would go by the APU1D4 board as a fully assembled
box from the Varia-store or another reseller, pre-installed with pfSense, with a mSATA.
~220 € + shippment here in Germany. Would be really good matching your criteria.Thanks for the reply. That price is still quite steep for me though. Are these any good? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pfsense-2-2-5-ITX-Firewall-Router-1-WAN-3-LAN-1-wireless-Access-Point-/321914510127?hash=item4af3999b2f:g:Wv0AAOxy3HJTI1ds
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@BlueKobold:
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Related to your named services or use case and number of users it is pretty easy.
- SG-2440 from the pfSense store
- Intel Celeron G3260 @3,2GHZ & SSD or mSATA & 4 GB RAM
- Intel Celeron J1900 box self build or base don a Jetway mainboard
- PC Engines APU1D4 (launched) or APU2B4 (january 2016)
Pending on what is cheap for you, I would go by the APU1D4 board as a fully assembled
box from the Varia-store or another reseller, pre-installed with pfSense, with a mSATA.
~220 € + shippment here in Germany. Would be really good matching your criteria.Thanks for the reply. That price is still quite steep for me though. Are these any good? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pfsense-2-2-5-ITX-Firewall-Router-1-WAN-3-LAN-1-wireless-Access-Point-/321914510127?hash=item4af3999b2f:g:Wv0AAOxy3HJTI1ds
But only 100 MBit/s Ports!
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@BlueKobold:
@BlueKobold:
Do you guys have any recommendations?
Related to your named services or use case and number of users it is pretty easy.
- SG-2440 from the pfSense store
- Intel Celeron G3260 @3,2GHZ & SSD or mSATA & 4 GB RAM
- Intel Celeron J1900 box self build or base don a Jetway mainboard
- PC Engines APU1D4 (launched) or APU2B4 (january 2016)
Pending on what is cheap for you, I would go by the APU1D4 board as a fully assembled
box from the Varia-store or another reseller, pre-installed with pfSense, with a mSATA.
~220 € + shippment here in Germany. Would be really good matching your criteria.Thanks for the reply. That price is still quite steep for me though. Are these any good? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pfsense-2-2-5-ITX-Firewall-Router-1-WAN-3-LAN-1-wireless-Access-Point-/321914510127?hash=item4af3999b2f:g:Wv0AAOxy3HJTI1ds
But only 100 MBit/s Ports!
You're right, but since my 2 WAN connections are just around 3Mbps each I wouldn't think that 100Mbps LAN will be saturated. My Gigabit switch will handle the Gigabit speed transfer between endpoints anyway. What the pfsense box will do is just to be a NAT and DHCP server that load balances between the 2 WAN connections. Does that make sense?
And how about this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plug-n-Play-PFSense-Watchguard-Mod-Kit-w-HDD-New-Add-On-/171989286027? That is pretty cheap.
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BUMP!
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This is good kit, have one myslef :-
http://linitx.com/product/linitx-apu-1d-4gb-3nicusbrtc-pfsense-msata-firewall-kit-black/14244
http://linitx.com/category/linitx-firewalls/1086
Alternatively just look at what these are built from i.e. APU 1D System Board with 4GB RAM. TBH, you'd get away with 2GB RAM. I have this setup, and with 50Mbit going via the firewall, with Snort & pfBlockerNG, it's around 50% CPU utilisation.
http://linitx.com/product/pcengines-pc-engines-apu-1d-system-board-with-4gb-ram/14344
Stu