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Chrysalis:
Following the post here http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=18942.msg337615#msg337615 which I do not want to hijack, I thought I would show my proposed new LAN which will be live when I built my PFSense device.

So The pfsense box is this baby http://amzn.eu/6Y5E48h
Ram and SSD are already here.  The SSD is way overkill but is a 60gig mini sata SSD (30gig is same price so 60gig is no brainer).

d2d4j:
Hi chrysalis

We use pfsense on some commercial setups, usually on dell poweredge xion dual quad core, 16gb ram, with raid 60 drives, and 2 x 4 1000mb nic cards, as well as onboard 4 1000 nic cards. Works lovely on multi nodes

We also use other firewalls and setups, but for home use, your setup looks ok

I do not use Sam knows box for anything other then Sam knows, and our setup is dynamic for sam knows, so it does not interfere with our IP range

Many thanks and I hope you don't mind my post, but please delete it if you want

Many thanks

John

Chunkers:
Very cool, have always wanted to fiddle with pfsense but have never been brave enough as a primary device.

As a (relevant) aside, personally I have had bad experiences of the passive Celeron microPC's, in my case the Asrock Beebox N3000 which has problems with heat dissipation under any kind of load and also very poor wireless and bluetooth performance - admittedly I was running Windows 10 on it and using it as a HTPC.  I have since switched it to LibreElec and it is much better but I have had to remove the wireless cards and use an external dongle instead and also take out 2.5" disk to keep it cool.

Yours is quite likely a better design that the Beebox and i imagine will be running at a low load but worth having a snoop round perhaps:)

o7

Chunks

skyeci:
love my pfsense box.

I use  pc engines apu2 with 4gb ram and 30gb mini ssd. Works a treat with my sky fibre pro too, supports sky IPV6 along with  open vpn works really well as I got my static IP before sky stopped offering them.
Its 12volt as well so low power use.

Spec http://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm 
CPU AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, 1 GHz quad Jaguar core with 64 bit and AES-NI support, 32K data + 32K instruction cache per core, shared 2MB L2 cache.

Not seen it break into a sweat yet..

Purchased it from LinITX in the UK - came pre built and pre-installed with a full version of Pfsense.

if anyone wants sky settings PM me should you fancy having a go..

sorted  :cool:

Ronski:
Tempted to build one of these, although would probably go for what skieci has, but purchase direct from PCEngines for just over half the price that LinITX want, although that would mean I have to work out how to install Pfsense

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