I'm looking for a fairly robust firewall/VLAN router for my home office/lab to replace my ancient/overtaxed Cisco ASA 5505.
I've got a bunch of physical and virtualized servers and a few WAPs all running on a handful of subnets. My current WAN is 100 Mbit fiber but I'll likely upgrade to 500 Mbit or 1 Gbit in the near future.
I plan to run Snort/Suricata and a DNS server on this box. No current plans for VPN but I may need it down the road. Onboard SPF+ is important so I can feed my switches with 10G goodness.
Here's what I'm thinking:
Supermicro X10SDV-TP8F (Xeon D-1518 @ 35W, 2 SPF+, 6 GbE)
2 Hynix HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK (8GB DDR4 1.2V 2666MHz Registered ECC)
2 Intel D3-S4610 240GB SSDs in ZFS mirror
Pico PSU TBD (any suggestions?)
Case TBD
This board is a "Flex ATX" motherboard which gives it enough room to have regular DIMM slots (not SODIMMS) and 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots (great for future expansion).
The case is going to be tricky because I need this box to be quiet. Ideally it would be a small box just large enough to hold the the board (including expansion slots), SSDs and a 120mm fan pushing air front-to-back over the CPU heatsink. Something like the Supermicro E300 but tall enough to fit larger (quieter) fans would be ideal. I've scoured the Internet but haven't found a good fit yet.
I was originally looking at the C3000 (Denverton) motherboards but the ones with onboard SFP+ are pretty pricey compared to this one. I couldn't find *any* D-1600 boards.
Using the Netgate appliances as a comparison, this box would sit somewhere between an XG-7100 and an XG-1537. Probably a bit over-powered for my needs but having headroom for future growth is good as long as it's not sucking too much power.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I've got a bunch of physical and virtualized servers and a few WAPs all running on a handful of subnets. My current WAN is 100 Mbit fiber but I'll likely upgrade to 500 Mbit or 1 Gbit in the near future.
I plan to run Snort/Suricata and a DNS server on this box. No current plans for VPN but I may need it down the road. Onboard SPF+ is important so I can feed my switches with 10G goodness.
Here's what I'm thinking:
Supermicro X10SDV-TP8F (Xeon D-1518 @ 35W, 2 SPF+, 6 GbE)
2 Hynix HMA81GR7CJR8N-VK (8GB DDR4 1.2V 2666MHz Registered ECC)
2 Intel D3-S4610 240GB SSDs in ZFS mirror
Pico PSU TBD (any suggestions?)
Case TBD
This board is a "Flex ATX" motherboard which gives it enough room to have regular DIMM slots (not SODIMMS) and 2 PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots (great for future expansion).
The case is going to be tricky because I need this box to be quiet. Ideally it would be a small box just large enough to hold the the board (including expansion slots), SSDs and a 120mm fan pushing air front-to-back over the CPU heatsink. Something like the Supermicro E300 but tall enough to fit larger (quieter) fans would be ideal. I've scoured the Internet but haven't found a good fit yet.
I was originally looking at the C3000 (Denverton) motherboards but the ones with onboard SFP+ are pretty pricey compared to this one. I couldn't find *any* D-1600 boards.
Using the Netgate appliances as a comparison, this box would sit somewhere between an XG-7100 and an XG-1537. Probably a bit over-powered for my needs but having headroom for future growth is good as long as it's not sucking too much power.
Thoughts? Suggestions?