Goodbye PFsense, Hello Opnsense (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Cyberlytical@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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:

https://imgur.com/lTmvj4K

https://imgur.com/iVdBMnu

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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[-] TheButtholeSurferz@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] geek_at@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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

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