On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 08:05:48AM +0200, Vassilis V. wrote: > Hello Luis! > > I have a similar installation at home and I have been using a Supermicro > X7SPE-HF with a D510 Atom processor.
Same thing here. > The CPU power is pure overkill but I love the IPMI feature, it has saved It's not really overkill if you consider snort and consorts. There are plenty of great packages, some of them more expensive in terms of CPU and storage I/O (I use small SSDs anyway) than others. > me many times and helps me monitor it. > > Some recommendations are: > - Depending where the firewall will be in your house, you might not want > any PSU or other fans working 24/7. My barebone is not "loud", but the > PSU fan is not silent either. I'm lucky to have access to cellar, where the heating burner is loud enough to drown fan noise. I put all my rackmount stuff and loose ends (G4 Mac mini, UPS, random external drives etc.) including patch panel and switch into a cheap wall-mount rack, and added two fans I had laying around so that ventilation is adequate. > - As it was also suggested, dont focus too much on the build-in WiFi. > You will pay a good amount of extra money for it and you will probably > end up with a less-than-ideal spot where the firewall/wlan AP will be. > So just make sure you have an extra NIC for the Wireless interface and > put a wireless router there. WiFi technology progresses far quicker than firewall/WAN speed (802.11n is at 450 MBit/s already), so you're likely to exchange WiFI APs more often than changing your core firewall. Adding multiple APs (I use bridge mode) will typically improve coverage. > - Support the companies that support pfsense. If you find the hardware > that best suits you, see if the companies from the link have what you > need. By supporting them you help pfsense. It is also worthwhile to donate directly to the project. I try to donate 50 EUR for any pfSence instance I have in operaton. I will do so again when 2.1 with full IPv6 support comes out. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
