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Thank you very much!  :D

Thanks monstermania

I would use IPS/IDS and proxy for web filtering for sure. VPN too, but for a few users and hardly they would connect at the same time.

With 20/30 clients connected APU4 would be enough or I need more power?

Hi, I am an Opnsense newbie and I need to install a firewall in my office. We are a no profit, so I'm trying to balance between price and quality.

Our internal network is 1GB, but only rather small files travel through the LAN (pdfs and docs mostly). There are about twenty clients spread over two floors and a dozen mobiles connected to wifi, three printers, two access points, a fileserver with Active Directory and a NAS for backups.

WAN bandwidth is 200/20 FTTS, and I have a backup WAN router too. Opnsense should therefore act as router, firewall and load balancer + failover, and I would also need to add DHCP, IPS, Web filtering and VPN features (but VPN connections would be very rare, for a couple of users and hardly connected at the same time).

What hardware do you think would fit this scenario? I started with the idea of adopting a clustered APU4 solution:

https://www.miniserver.it/firewall/cluster/nano-cluster-apu-4c4.html

reading on the vendor's website, however, such hardware would seem to be not enough, both in terms of number of clients and features.

So I am evaluating these QOTOM boxes:

https://it.aliexpress.com/item/32812678037.html?spm=a2g0y.12010610.8148356.9.459a4dcdWuJdOZ

And this PARTAKER one:

https://www.amazon.it/Partaker-pfsense-Motherboard-Firewall-Computer/dp/B07MNNXHGM/ref=sr_1_7?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1TXB4QYGLMNFD&keywords=partaker&qid=1572873540&sprefix=partake%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-7&th=1

I would equip them with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD.

I've read many good reviews on this forum about Qotom, but I'm a little hesitant to buy directly from China due to shipping times (we're in Italy) and support, while I could buy the Partaker box from local Amazon. I saw no reviews about Partaker, though, and  I really don't know if Atom E3845 would fit my needs or if I should go with I5/I7.

So, any suggestion would be extremely appreciated! Thank you!