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Title: Hardware Homelab
Post by: lscosta on July 03, 2015, 05:01:57 am

PessoALL,

System:

I want a HomeLab and plan to use the following configuration:

The hardware specification this good? What do you think?

CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 APU (Kabini)
MOBO: ASRock AM1H-ITX
HD: 60GB SSD Patriot Inferno
RAM: G.SKILL Sniper 2x4GB DDR3 2133 F3-17000CL11D-8GBSR
NIC: HP NC364T PCIe 4Pt Gigabit Server Adptr


HomeLab for 5 users
- 2 link Cable 50mbs e DSL 50mbs
- 3 VPN site to client
- Proxy, snort, VPN, carp, captive portal
:)
rigth ?

Title: Re: Hardware Homelab
Post by: franco on July 03, 2015, 08:58:35 am

This is a very generous setup. The NIC you chose is supported by the e1000 (em) driver in FreeBSD. Have fun. :)

Title: Re: Hardware Homelab
Post by: lucifercipher on July 05, 2015, 11:40:28 pm

Bit of an overkill :) The hardware that you chose can easily handle upto 500 users without any issue. Minus the Snort, you are good to go. Current IDS is "Suricata"