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Archive => 15.1 Legacy Series => Topic started by: neggard on June 14, 2015, 07:33:16 pm

Title: Hardware for firewall.
Post by: neggard on June 14, 2015, 07:33:16 pm

Hello.

I am new to this forum and this OPNsense.
Before I have running lots of firewallsdistro like m0n0wall, pfsense and untangle.

Now I want to try this distro.

For the first time I shlould by new hardware for my firewall and have looked at this motherboard
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4918#ov

Is this a good motherboard and will it handle all services with about 10-20 users?
Are all the components working with OPNsense?

Or is there another hardware that is batter and cost about the same ammount?

Title: Re: Hardware for firewall.
Post by: johnjohn on June 15, 2015, 03:44:47 am

Check these out, http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-AT3GC-I-NA-SI-Intel-Atom-330-479-945GC-Mini-Itx-Motherboard-CPU-Combo-/181675705050?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a4cb742da

Title: Re: Hardware for firewall.
Post by: jstrebel on June 15, 2015, 10:51:24 am

I use successfully http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
Discounting  the very low power consumption Cost into the purchase price you will get a excellent cost of ownership.
Jakob

Title: Re: Hardware for firewall.
Post by: aa on June 21, 2015, 05:42:29 pm

One crucial device when building firewall is NIC
(since processing power currently is no longer a big constraint).

If you can afford it, get Intel, otherwise Broadcom,
only then Realtek, respectively in order.