Hey guys this is my first post,
I've been reading this forum and others for a while trying to figure out the cheapest way to accomplish this task. I'm in the process of setting up my home network for a few different things and have decided I want to implement a firewall directly behind my modem which will run to 4 subnets used for various tasks. Some of the things my network will include is a lot of downloading and multiple HD streams out of a media server along with remote connections from myself and a couple friends that I will be building a development environment for.
Since I know that connections to a VPN service will be limited themselves, I was looking for either a dedicated firewall device or maybe convert a server into one where I can load 4 instances of the VPN client on the firewall as well as run an OpenVPN server. That way the full bandwidth to the house on a Gig connection can still be utilized throughout the 4 subnets even if only getting 200/Mbps from each VPN connection. But that means I need hardware that can support SSL at close to 1Gbps.
I've looked at old watchguard routers and possibly getting a supermicro server with pfsense to handle the task... but I'm not really sure how much power I really need for that. Thanks!
I've been reading this forum and others for a while trying to figure out the cheapest way to accomplish this task. I'm in the process of setting up my home network for a few different things and have decided I want to implement a firewall directly behind my modem which will run to 4 subnets used for various tasks. Some of the things my network will include is a lot of downloading and multiple HD streams out of a media server along with remote connections from myself and a couple friends that I will be building a development environment for.
Since I know that connections to a VPN service will be limited themselves, I was looking for either a dedicated firewall device or maybe convert a server into one where I can load 4 instances of the VPN client on the firewall as well as run an OpenVPN server. That way the full bandwidth to the house on a Gig connection can still be utilized throughout the 4 subnets even if only getting 200/Mbps from each VPN connection. But that means I need hardware that can support SSL at close to 1Gbps.
I've looked at old watchguard routers and possibly getting a supermicro server with pfsense to handle the task... but I'm not really sure how much power I really need for that. Thanks!
