[aklug] Re: Small PFSense Router?

I'm super happy with this, but the $150 barebones base price, plus 8G
RAM and a 60GB SSD, it's $220 reasonably populated, on top of a 40W
power supply, it may not be what you're looking for.

https://www.zotac.com/us/product/mini_pcs/zbox-ci323-nano#spec

But I personally would pay the power cost in exchange for the
additional room and oomph. There are some low-budget 2-NIC boxes on
Amazon that you can get, but not that much less expensive for what you
get.

Only thing I've noticed is a little video flakiness when using VGA
directly. Also, the NICs are Broadcom and not Intel, so if you're
pushing high-ish volumne (just a guess, maybe cbrown will chime in
here, but more than 200Mb/s?), you might look around more.

But you can do full proxy with ClamAV, etc. I'd definitely go pfSense.
But I'm biased. :)

Royce

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want routing, firewall, DHCP, and VPN, in a low energy device, you
> might try Mikrotik devices. It's ~linux instead of FreeBSD, and no
> third-party packages (i.e., you don't get a full linux CLI). But lots of
> bang for the buck. How much VPN bandwidth will you need? That's likely to be
> your bottleneck, and something the ERL would be better at as it has hardware
> acceleration.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher@alaskasi.com> wrote:
>>
>> Might Royce or someone be able to give me a little guidance? I wanted to
>> play around with integrating a PFSense box into our network, chiefly for
>> routing, firewall, and DHCP... maybe play around with VPN functionality too.
>> I'm trying to find the cheapest one I can get that is still energy
>> efficient. I need only 3 ports. Would maybe this be a good buy?:
>>
>>
>> http://corpshadow.biz/bizstore/alix-combo-kits/alix-2d13-black-combo-kit.html#/compactflash_card-1_gb_cf1slc
>>
>> I actually found an ERL which was a great price, but I couldn't make
>> myself agree to their ridiculous licensing terms, so I'm returning it. I
>> could probably get by with DD-WRT on one of our old Linksys routers, but I'm
>> rather allured by all the snazzy PFSense screen shots I've been looking at
>> lately. :)
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Howard, Computer Assistant
>> Alaska Satellite Internet
>> 3239 La Ree Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709
>> 907-451-0088 or 888-396-5623 (toll free)
>> fax: 888-260-3584
>> mailto:christopher@alaskasi.com
>> http://www.alaskasatelliteinternet.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jeremy Austin
>
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> (907) 803-5422
> jhaustin@gmail.com
>
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>
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