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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: sporkman on February 12, 2016, 07:52:15 am

Title: [SOLVED] Hardware Forum?
Post by: sporkman on February 12, 2016, 07:52:15 am

Perhaps this forum will do for now, but it would be nice to have some user-reported hardware success/failure stories.

I've been looking for something small, dual LAN, and very cheap recently, and this looks awesome, but I'm not sure if it would be at all supported:

http://www.hystou.com/products/fanless-mini-pc/celeron-mini-pc/small-fanless-pc-mini-computer-barebone-system-with-intel-celeron-processor-n3150-208ghz-2hdmi-1276.html

$110 as barebones (add disk and RAM) or $141 with 2GB RAM and 16GB SSD.

Considering you guys don't have a hardware "partner" to push users towards, setting up some kind of supported hardware FAQ or forum would sure be handy.  There's a lot of nutty hardware out there in the direct-from-China market, including stuff like these multi-LAN boxes:

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/4-Gigabit-Hardware-Firewall-Router-BYPASS-Function-ROS-Security-Network-Server-IN-R24S/1501885_32452275008.html

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: weust on February 12, 2016, 08:29:43 am

It seems you haven't looked very far on the opnsense.org page under Partners.
https://www.applianceshop.eu/?___store=en

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: sporkman on February 12, 2016, 08:37:47 am

Looks like a slightly more "loose" association than the pfsense/netgate situation...

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: weust on February 12, 2016, 08:50:08 am

Ad and/or Jos can answer that in more detail.

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: jschellevis on February 12, 2016, 10:13:56 am

Quote from: sporkman on February 12, 2016, 08:37:47 am

Looks like a slightly more "loose" association than the pfsense/netgate situation...

To clarify Deciso is the founder and primary sponsor of the OPNsense project.
We at Deciso believe that "sharing knowledge makes for better products" and therefore no restrictions  should be made on who or how anyone can use OPNsense.

Within the project we have some great partners - listed on the OPNsense partner page - who contribute financially to the project and help the community to expand its reach.
 
With Deciso's 16 years of experience in network technology, hardware and software design we bring turn-key appliances to end customers and re-sellers.

While we very much welcome you to purchase from us, our partners or re-sellers there is nothing holding you back to buy from someone else or build something yourself.

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: jschellevis on February 12, 2016, 10:18:04 am

I forgot to say... if you like to product a donation is always welcome  :)

See: https://opnsense.org/donate/ (https://opnsense.org/donate/)

Other ways to contribute are listed here: https://docs.opnsense.org/contribute.html (https://docs.opnsense.org/contribute.html)


Thanks for using OPNsense!

Title: Re: Hardware Forum?
Post by: sporkman on February 12, 2016, 11:39:07 pm

Thanks for the reply!

The fact that your "partners" page links to other hardware vendors makes me feel a bit better.

I have pfsense all over the place, just downloaded opnsense to a VM last night to take a peek.  Love the UI, on the fence with not having a QoS "wizard". :)

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware Forum?
Post by: franco on February 15, 2016, 07:31:02 am

Hi sporkman,

Not sure if we can bring back the removed wizards short- or mid-term. They have been subject to considerable bitrot by itself. And the delete trigger has mostly been the complete transformation of the subsystem (here traffic shaping) so they did not apply anymore anyway.

What I can do, however, is add a new forum as per your request: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?board=21.0

:)


Enjoy,
Franco