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Still trying to find a great home router that I can slap something like pfSense on.

noonespecial 12y ago
I use these little guys. A bit overpriced and only 100mb but they work well, run pfsense, openWRT etc and generally do what I want for years in a closet with no further intervention. http://www.pcengines.ch/ http://www.pcengines.ch/
- anderiv 12y ago
  That, and the ~6 watt current draw at full tilt (at least that's what it was when I was load testing a couple of 2d3 boards) is very nice on the utility bill. Their newly-released APU boards are very nice, with GigE interfaces, increased RAM, and much faster CPUs.
  - socceroos 12y ago
    Yeah, fanless/low power draw is a must for me. I'm willing to pay a bit more for it too. But since I also want to run a transparent proxy it needs a bit of beef.
buddylw 12y ago
I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real downside was a single gigabit NIC, so I had to use VLANs and a router-on-a-stick configuration on a managed switch. Since the hardware is aging (and I want more NICs for no good reason) I recently found the edgerouter from Ubiquiti. It's running a modified version of Vyetta/vyos and shares its powerful CLI. It's also dirt cheap at <$100 and has been said (I haven't tried to max it out yet) to handle 500Mbit throughput. So far I haven't found anything that it can't do. It will also POE a few Ubiquiti access points, if you are into those. Makes a really nice home setup for the home network engineer for <$200.
vhost- 12y ago
Here's what I built: (Copied and pasted from one of my gists) Motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#... RAM: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-204-Pin-Notebook-CT25664BF160B/dp/B005LDLP8W/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1409717153&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-204-Pin-Notebook-CT2... Hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008U3038I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008U3038I/ref=oh_aui_detai... Case: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWYRYMY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWYRYMY/ref=oh_aui_detai... OS: Debian Wheezy Software: iptables, isc-dhcpd, bind9, openvpn edit: formatting
stock_toaster 12y ago
A little pcengines apu4[0][1] or a lanner[2][3] - both work very well with pfsense. [0]: http://store.netgate.com/APU1C4.aspx [1]: kit http://store.netgate.com/APU4.aspx [2]: http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/desktop/fw-7541 [3]: kit http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-FW-7541-BTO-P1893.aspx
- gonzo 12y ago
  Thanks! (co-owner of both Netgate & pfSense)
  - socceroos 12y ago
    Wait...you co-own pfSense...
    - gonzo 12y ago
      the company behind it, yeah.
      - socceroos 12y ago
        yeah, ok... that makes more sense ;) BTW, thank you for your contribution to pfSense - it's the best darned firewall I can find.

I use these little guys. A bit overpriced and only 100mb but they work well, run pfsense, openWRT etc and generally do what I want for years in a closet with no further intervention. http://www.pcengines.ch/ http://www.pcengines.ch/

anderiv 12y ago
That, and the ~6 watt current draw at full tilt (at least that's what it was when I was load testing a couple of 2d3 boards) is very nice on the utility bill. Their newly-released APU boards are very nice, with GigE interfaces, increased RAM, and much faster CPUs.
- socceroos 12y ago
  Yeah, fanless/low power draw is a must for me. I'm willing to pay a bit more for it too. But since I also want to run a transparent proxy it needs a bit of beef.

buddylw 12y ago

I've been running PFSense on an old Acer Aspire (now called veriton) and it's worked decently well for home use (100 Mbit downstream internet). It's only real downside was a single gigabit NIC, so I had to use VLANs and a router-on-a-stick configuration on a managed switch. Since the hardware is aging (and I want more NICs for no good reason) I recently found the edgerouter from Ubiquiti. It's running a modified version of Vyetta/vyos and shares its powerful CLI. It's also dirt cheap at <$100 and has been said (I haven't tried to max it out yet) to handle 500Mbit throughput. So far I haven't found anything that it can't do. It will also POE a few Ubiquiti access points, if you are into those. Makes a really nice home setup for the home network engineer for <$200.

vhost- 12y ago

Here's what I built: (Copied and pasted from one of my gists) Motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#... RAM: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-204-Pin-Notebook-CT25664BF160B/dp/B005LDLP8W/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1409717153&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3-12800-204-Pin-Notebook-CT2... Hard drive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008U3038I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008U3038I/ref=oh_aui_detai... Case: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWYRYMY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HWYRYMY/ref=oh_aui_detai... OS: Debian Wheezy Software: iptables, isc-dhcpd, bind9, openvpn edit: formatting

stock_toaster 12y ago

A little pcengines apu4[0][1] or a lanner[2][3] - both work very well with pfsense. [0]: http://store.netgate.com/APU1C4.aspx [1]: kit http://store.netgate.com/APU4.aspx [2]: http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/desktop/fw-7541 [3]: kit http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-FW-7541-BTO-P1893.aspx

gonzo 12y ago
Thanks! (co-owner of both Netgate & pfSense)
- socceroos 12y ago
  Wait...you co-own pfSense...
  - gonzo 12y ago
    the company behind it, yeah.
    - socceroos 12y ago
      yeah, ok... that makes more sense ;) BTW, thank you for your contribution to pfSense - it's the best darned firewall I can find.