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Well to keep in-line with my company we are expanding to deploy more and more and more pfSense devices for many of our SOHO customers where a device beyond $100 is installed. For those budget installations we are sticking with Ubiquity ERL's and UniFi AP's.
But now that I want to dabble more in IDS/IPS, OpenVPN, and maintaining decent network traffic speeds over encrypted connections, I need more hardware than the ERL has to offer. And while I like UBNT, it's tough to deny that pfSense has more to offer with what I'm interested in, especially in a web-GUI interface where UBNT is always falling a little behind.
I have nothing against building my own, but for around the same price I can get a Rangely-SOC'd unit ready to go...
Netgate 2440 - $350 - http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx
But for that kind of money, it is tough for to justify not trying to build my own low-power consuming/still powerful solution. I've read for months about the Alibaba Chinese micro-PC's, I read the recent-ish ARS article about the same thing...the prices fluxuate, the shipping is expensive and reliability/pfSense support is a mixed bag. I've been scouring pfSense forums and Reddit, the Google and beyond... I've looked at Netgate, Shuttle, pfSense store, Supermicro, mATX/ITX builds...etc. I'd like to do a power sipping, mITX or smaller, but powerful enough to handle encrypted traffic at my WAN speed build...
Please let me know your thoughts or if I might as well just go with and save for the 2440...
I wish the C2xx8-series CPU's were more widespread across vendors...they appear to provide good processing power, AES-NI, and other powerful features, all while sipping power from the wall...small footprint too... I don't NEED more than 2 gigabit ports, 1 WAN, 1 LAN is fine for me.
Thoughts?
But now that I want to dabble more in IDS/IPS, OpenVPN, and maintaining decent network traffic speeds over encrypted connections, I need more hardware than the ERL has to offer. And while I like UBNT, it's tough to deny that pfSense has more to offer with what I'm interested in, especially in a web-GUI interface where UBNT is always falling a little behind.
I have nothing against building my own, but for around the same price I can get a Rangely-SOC'd unit ready to go...
Netgate 2440 - $350 - http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx
But for that kind of money, it is tough for to justify not trying to build my own low-power consuming/still powerful solution. I've read for months about the Alibaba Chinese micro-PC's, I read the recent-ish ARS article about the same thing...the prices fluxuate, the shipping is expensive and reliability/pfSense support is a mixed bag. I've been scouring pfSense forums and Reddit, the Google and beyond... I've looked at Netgate, Shuttle, pfSense store, Supermicro, mATX/ITX builds...etc. I'd like to do a power sipping, mITX or smaller, but powerful enough to handle encrypted traffic at my WAN speed build...
Please let me know your thoughts or if I might as well just go with and save for the 2440...
I wish the C2xx8-series CPU's were more widespread across vendors...they appear to provide good processing power, AES-NI, and other powerful features, all while sipping power from the wall...small footprint too... I don't NEED more than 2 gigabit ports, 1 WAN, 1 LAN is fine for me.
Thoughts?