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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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.
Agreed. OP should install pfsense on that thing and run opnsense vitually on this. I do this on a Lenovo Tiny with a 10g NIC and it works perfectly