pfsense

I purchased an AMD Ryzen R7-5800U box from the official CWWK store on AliExpress about 18 months ago. The device worked perfectly for the first 12 months, but then it gradually began to freeze and lock up. I’ve tried different operating systems, memory, SSDs, and other hardware to rule out any...

Just ordered two (Mini PC Q20300G9-S10 Series CPU Atom C3808, 10G SFP+/ 2.5G LAN/ Qotom Mini Server/ Router Firewall) devices with the goal of having two of my locations have a site-to-site vpn. I'm a techie but a noob at this. The CPU in these devices is an Intel C-Series that has embedded...

Hello everyone :) In a homelab / home network, the main priorities are usually: energy-efficient, small, quiet. Noise isn't an issue for me, as it's absorbed. As for hardware requirements, here's what I have in mind: pfSense/OPNsense Typically no more than 5 users The full bandwidth of the...

Hello, I'm new here and I hope to get some advice. I'm trying to build a mini firewall pfSense PC with unusal setup: two WiFi network cards in one box. Let's put aside the fact that pfSense is considered very poor for wireless networking due to limited support of wireless cards. That would be a...

I'm looking for recommendations for 3 mini computers: Very, very tight budget - price is a significant consideration, and import taxes in my country are high. They must handle heat well - my country has very high temperatures in the summer and they will be located in a non-air-conditioned...

How do I connect Hassivo Managed Switch to Unify Switch passing all tagged traffic?

I'm new to the roll your own router game, and I'm coming from a ubiquity edge router device. I have a symmetric 1gb connection and might later move to a 2gb. the price is surprisingly cheap 85 per month. anyway I'm got a nas server box and I like to tinker so this is the next project. I...

I currently run pfSense on a SuperMicro microATX board with intel i3-6100, 16GB ECC RAM, and a quad Intel 1GB NIC in a small Fractal Design Core 1100 mini tower case. It is rock solid and zero complaints other than the space it takes up. Given the plethora of mini PCs out there that could...

I am looking for guidance on how to setup a dual stack system in my homelab using Verizons fios ipv6 on pfsense. My setup looks like this now: 1. Pfsense is doing firewall duties only. Routing is offloaded to a brocade layer 3 switch connected via a transit network on the OPT1 interface. 2. I...

After watching/reading the reviews on STH for this little unit I decided to get one for myself and try out Proxmox and VMs with PfSense with the intention on going with a multi gig connection. It handles my gigabit connection without any issues and I ended not going multi gig since I don't have...

I'm in a bit of a crisis, Wanting to setup a home network with two WAN inputs, Starlink & the current ISP. I'm not sure what hardware is needed for such a setup to allow Loadbalancing / Failover. I would love to run pfsense or openwrt as well if possible. I plan on setting up Pi-hole, Unbound &...

I'm new to setting up a pfSense router and am having some odd cases where some URL's are not working. I do have pfBlockerNG setup, but I've tried disabling the firewall/removing rules and none of those helped. So my guess is that it's not the firewall, but some sort of DNS resolver issue. My...

Good day all, I'm in the process of converting from ESXI to Proxmox. I have pfSense virtualized and working on Proxmox with 2 bonded networks, one for WAN and one for LAN where the WAN is directly connected from the Proxmox host to the Modem. The next step is to configure Proxmox HA for the...

I am currently very happy with my N6005 topton box, but google fiber is offering 2gb and potentially going to 5gb in my area soon. I heard that people have used the Unifi UDM Pro with SFP+ input to directly receive the optical signal from Google fiber, but I'm not interested in the UDM Pro and...

First post here. Was over on reddit but finally decided that I was crazy not to join STH. I have an XTM 520 laying around from back when I first put my lab together. At the time, used it with watchguard firmware and it was...fine. I have since moved on to other hardware, but starting think...

Hello, I have a Microserver Gen8 - it's runing ESXI with Pfsense, Home assistant, OMV6 and RHEL9 for containers E3-1230 v2 16 RAM ECC (it's the maximum) 4x4TB WD RED NAS I'm running everything in one and only server, if something goes wrong, well no internet, nothing. I wanted to buy a 2nd...

How likely are Aliexpress Protectli-alternatives Coreboot-compatible? From a little research, I'm probably going to with a typical J4125 since it seems like a sweet spot for pfSense usage as a good power/performance. I looked at the N5100 which seems capable of lower power and higher power, the...

I'm looking to use one of these for pfsense. It has one msata port and one regular sata port. It only has one power port for sata (not a standard one - it comes with a cable to adapt to the drive). - For dual boot drive do the SSD's need to be identical, or can I use 2 similarly specced ones...

Hey! I wanted to migrate my pfsense Box to OPNSense this weekend and so far it's gone horribly wrong and the anxiety slowly starts to hit. The system was running perfectly fine for 3-4 years with pfsense, and now I plugged in the OPNSense installer USB, wanted to reboot and it booted to EFI...

Hi all, I have a Supermicro E300-4CN8TF that needs a new home. It's been rocking ESXi 6.7 (But is capable of 7.0) and doing stellar service for the last few months. But I don't need two of these. So give it a new home - Run PFSense, OPNSense, VMs, Dockers etc. It's got SFP+ / 10Gbe / 4xGbE -...