After having issues with my Netgate 4100 (see this post) and knowing all the crap Netgate has pulled the last few years, I decided to build a new Firewall capable of 10 gig routing. Hopefully this fixes my issues. If not at least I no longer have to support PFsense.
Pictures:
Hardware:
X11SSH-F Motherboard
Xeon E3-1240 v5 CPU
32GB 2400mghz RAM
ZFS Mirrored 128gb SSDs
350W Gold Rated PSU
Connect X3 Dual SFP+ NIC
Should have it production ready by next week. Really not looking forward to reconfiguring all the HAProxy/ VPN stuff, but so far already found quite a few Aliases/Rules I can cleanup.
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Nice, OP. My pfsense config is large and complex, but I’m currently working on migrating it to OPNsense this week too. I’m glad to not be putting up with Netgate’s crap for much longer. Since I have a few Dell R240s, I’ve even been thinking of doing HA.
I wonder how long pfsense will be able to stay in business, everyone in my little circle dumped them a while ago and I see constant posts on here of people switching.
Complete overkill in my opinion, but I like spending money, so I’ll allow it.
Mine runs on an i3 and generally gets around 10-30% CPU usage, never anything even close to taxing.
What supermicro case is that if I may ask? I’m also going to set up and build a dedicated firewall. Something similar specs to yours.
I made the switch from pfsense to OPNsense but I was having insane ping issues so I switched back to Pfsense and poof all better…. No idea why
