Allow me to clarify why this need arose. The other day I had to solve a network problem for a friend - his bandwidth uplink was constantly peaked and the ISP was not helping so he called me in. Given that I had pushed the ISP to do protocol analysis on the outbound traffic on their end and they had said it was http, I though of using pfSense off LiveCD, but I wanted to install squid and "see" what was causing the problem. I ended up installing pfSense on a Desktop PC, and I had to get an old one which uses PCI slots, because my dual-port Ethernet card is PCI. I was going to put aside the client's router (running OpenWRT) and slot in my pfSense box in place. This is what got me thinking. If only I had a very portable pfSense appliance (one that can fit into my backpack) then I did not need to carry a whole Desktop PC. I do not have to worry about dual-port Ethernet cards. All I'd need is that appliance, reconfigure the interface IPs and voila!
What I meant with high specs is to do with CPU, Disk Storage and RAM. Why? For instance in the particular case I went to address, there was a DDoS issue. Some app installed on one of the computers on that LAN was sending millions of HTTP GET requests to www.ffssc.net. In just about 5 minutes, my squid log file had grown to 50MB! If this was a small appliance, I am thinking it would have given up on service in no time.. So high specs for me means something like 256MB or more storage, 1GHz+ CPU and say, 1GB+ RAM - but still small enough in size to fit into my backpack. That would be my Swiss Knife for network troubleshooting when needed On 24 April 2013 21:05, Mathieu Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 24.04.2013 19:40, schrieb Odhiambo Washington: >> I'd like to acquire a nicely designed device running pfSense. Is there >> a nicely designed device the size of a typical Netgear WiFi router >> device, with high specs? > Depends what you think about "high specs" many 1 GE ports or even 10 GE, > lots of cores etc? > > In case of sized like "typical netgear wifi router device" I guess you > won't get much > more than an atom in that form factor if it has to be fanless or > otherwise very quiet and > power-saving. > > Other than that prebuilt Core i/Xeon systems exist, but they are more > likely to be > 1 rack unit format (often not full depth) and less office-friendly I guess. > > Some hardware vendors are listed here: > http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=50 > > -- Mathieu > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
