Suggest Hardware for deployment in college!!!
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30mbps internet speed!!! Yes its slow i live in india!
1 wired network for office connections.
2 wireless aps with 2 nics (1 nic for each ap)
firewall to block certain websites on these APs and deploy captive portal on APs
Suggest me rugged Motherboard or will an existing 2 or 3rd gen mobo suffice?
4gb and what cpu should i go with
its mission critical
and will use local database for captive portal
200 students max for captive portal only 20-25 active at a time.
Wont be using squid cuz it interferes with captive portal
pfSense 2.3
Budget $ 300 max -
30mbps internet speed!!! Yes its slow i live in india!
1 wired network for office connections.
2 wireless aps with 2 nics (1 nic for each ap)
firewall to block certain websites on these APs and deploy captive portal on APs
Suggest me rugged Motherboard or will an existing 2 or 3rd gen mobo suffice?
4gb and what cpu should i go with
its mission critical
and will use local database for captive portal
200 students max for captive portal only 20-25 active at a time.
Wont be using squid cuz it interferes with captive portal
pfSense 2.3
Budget $ 300 maxApparently you don't need a very high performance machine to do the job, maybe you can take a look to my current build for reference.
So my Jetway board is a long-life cycle supporting board, an industrial grade so I believe it suits the mission critical operation, what you might need to change is to add in a HDD/SDD for full install instead of NanoBSD (as full install allows gMirror for soft RAID1 protection).
Other options for mobo: Asrock J1900D2Y, Asrock AD2550R/U3S3, Supermicro X10SBA-L with a single/dual port PCI-E add-on ethernet card, I probably won't suggest the Rangeley processor series to you as the mobo itself + ECC ram are already out of your budget.
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gigabyte j1900-d3v with dual nic, cheap case and psu, 8gb ram, 120gb ssd
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gigabyte j1900-d3v with dual nic, cheap case and psu, 8gb ram, 120gb ssd
Including the onboard LAN, this setup can only be extended to at most 3 LAN ports, while 2 of them are Realtek LAN, I don't really recommend this for a mission critical system.
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my above post + 1pci network card
if your on the cheap, difficult to do.
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my above post + 1pci network card
if your on the cheap, difficult to do.
then I would rather go for stability and choose the cheaper Intel D2500CCE, with 2 x onboard Intel LAN, and you can add 1 x PCI Intel LAN to make a 3-port setup.