HW for pfSense

georgelza

georgelza

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so I know I can buy a NetGate... and/or use a old computer (which I don't have)

What is everyone running pfSense on.
need to look at replacing my Draytek 2760.

Looking at using as my edge device plugging into the ONT of the Infrastructure provider (MetroFiber) in my case, other words not using ISP supplied modem/router.

FW duty yes, but more so as the edge device doing outgoing VPN...

planning on having the pfSense LAN out go into a Unify UDM Pro SE (replacing my very old Unifi USG) once they become available, from where it goes into a 24 port TP Link (to be replaced sometime with a Unit unit) from where all my hard wired devices and my AP's are hanging, although the AP's will most likely move to the UDM Pro SE (patching into the PoE ports).

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Why not just stick with udm as the edge device..? It does support VPN..

You will need some sort of hardware to run pfsense, so you are going to have the buy something or other to run it..
 
I know the UDM Pro SE will support incoming VPN, not a problem, but the outgoing VPN onto something like NordVPN not aware that they can do that. aka peering yourself into somewhere in Europe... at a entire home level, instead of just of just for a single device.

if you look at the thread title, ye asking what people are using to run pfSense on, have to go look how much a NUC is, seems/sounds like a good option.

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Hey George,

Good idea on PfSense. Confirm the type of VPN client you would like the PfSense box to run.
 
For many years I ran pfSense in a VMware vm on a little HP Microserver. Then a colleague got me a little Netgate SG-3100. What a pleasure! Well worth it, in my view. Now an indispensable part of my home network. Highly recommended.
 
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I have 2 uses... personal remote access into my environment for remote fixing as I travel quite often.
and then outgoing VPN in to Europ (most prob OpenVPN or NordVPN) to peer into a EU IP... hide where I am, and then have access to EU content. having the pfSense do this from the edge of my network it will imply all my network devices transit data out through the VPN access point in the EU

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What you pay for the NetGate.
hmm, ye, the way my network is setup a VM is not going to work, for production, for lab to learn it, sure.

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$325. Bought in USA.

Works great for what you want. I have my own OpenVPN server on pfSense so I can tunnel in from outside. And it's easily configured to route through NordVPN to wherever you want to exit. The Nord site has full deets and a step-by-step.
 
What is the speed of your Fibre? Cheap 5th gen i3 and 8GB DDR3 and 120GB SSD with 2 NIC's and you done.

The problem with the world right now is that not enough people are using PfSense, thats why they all unhappy.

/Friday night.
 
I'm going to be taking the 200/200 (but then that won't stay like that either) package MetroFiber+CoolIdeas ... ifI can get PBCool to respond and assist.

thinking of seeing if I can get my hands on a older HPE MicroServer with 8Gb RAM.
Will add a NIC as it only comes with 1 onboard port.

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That will have a AMD Turien CPU, tried it, dont recommend it. With those speeds and the VPN processing overhead I reckon better to get a more decent processor.

Carbonite has excellent options available for this purpose.
 
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That will have a AMD Turien CPU, tried it, dont recommend it. With those speeds and the VPN processing overhead I reckon better to get a more decent processor.

Carbonite has excellent options available for this purpose.
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Thanks... this is where this site helps, other peoples experience...
Will pop onto Carbonite.
The Netgate 2100 looks like a good option, or otherwise something similar.
Interesting that this and the 1100 is build on ARM, but then when you look at downloads they don't offer ARM download,
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