Needing a new Firewall

posted 11 months ago

So a couple days ago I posted this post about getting slow speeds to my servers at home from basically anywhere. While I am not seeing HA Proxy or anything peg the CPU I figured it’s either my ISP or my Netgate 4100.

So I am now looking for a 1 or 2u firewall that I can have/place 10gig cards in them. I want to stay below $200 if possible. I don’t care if it is massively overkill, I specked this 4100 based on my actual needs and it let me down.

Needs:

10gig

AES-NI support

4 RJ45/SFP+

Rack mountable

Wants:

Ports in front

Quiet (as long as its not louder than my Brocade 6610 we good)

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CelticDubstep@alien.topB

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11 months ago

UniFi Dream Machine Pro (or SE) or Gateway Pro would be my choice.

In 2019, I decommissioned the UniFi USG’s at our office because at the time, they lack many features and switched us to pfSense which has been flawless for the pat 4 years. I recently switched back to UniFi as a firewall and it is night and day difference compared to 2019 and is feature rich now. Multiple WAN IP Support, OpenVPN Support, Wiregard Support, etc.

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tcp-xenos@alien.topB

1 point

11 months ago

10G under $200 is going to be tough.

I’d personally build it with a fanless mini PC like this for even less power and zero noise

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