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Hi,
After a decade of running pfSense on an old tower PC, it's time to move on with the world. So I am looking for a mini PC for running OPNsense with 4 gigE or higher NICs. This is just an old network hand for our house, so there it no crazy requirements for packet rate and massive filtering.
The big thing I worry about from the budget systems like I see on Amazon is making sure there are no back doors and good support at the BIOS level. Those are invisible at the higher levels and I have no desire to run another level of monitoring beyond the firewall.
Are there any systems that people are happy with that have trusted BIOS level protection and support?
A second question is how people feel about separating DNS/DHCP from firewall servers in general? I do this currently, a carry over from my data center building days, but it seems like this is probably not worth the support effort of a second system.
thanks in advance,
jerry
After a decade of running pfSense on an old tower PC, it's time to move on with the world. So I am looking for a mini PC for running OPNsense with 4 gigE or higher NICs. This is just an old network hand for our house, so there it no crazy requirements for packet rate and massive filtering.
The big thing I worry about from the budget systems like I see on Amazon is making sure there are no back doors and good support at the BIOS level. Those are invisible at the higher levels and I have no desire to run another level of monitoring beyond the firewall.
Are there any systems that people are happy with that have trusted BIOS level protection and support?
A second question is how people feel about separating DNS/DHCP from firewall servers in general? I do this currently, a carry over from my data center building days, but it seems like this is probably not worth the support effort of a second system.
thanks in advance,
jerry
