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As long FreeBSD plays nice* and hw components are chosen to have drivers, it seems like the perfect chip to put on a SBC for a compact, solid-state pfSense box.
by anonsivalley652 7y ago
As long FreeBSD plays nice* and hw components are chosen to have drivers, it seems like the perfect chip to put on a SBC for a compact, solid-state pfSense box.
* iXSystems mentioned to avoid AMD for FreeNAS, although maybe it is obsolete advice or doesn't apply to pfSense.
- nicolaslem 7y agoAMD APUs are quite popular as passively cooled routers running pfSense or OPNsense.
- anonsivalley652 7y agoAfter looking at specs and prices, I think I'll just get a used SFF ECC workstation and slot in a quad 10 GbE copper card and a cryptographic accelerator. I can't see the point in paying more for new *sense-specific gear. It might have a fan, but I can always throw in a Noctua if I'm worried about it.
- fierarul 7y ago> iXSystems mentioned to avoid AMD for FreeNAS This seems odd. Long ago FreeNAS on the N54L microserver was a nice setup and it had some AMD chip. I suspect it might apply only to some bleeding edge stuff...