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Goodbye PFsense, Hello Opnsense (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What Supermicro box did you go with?

I have a recently acquired a SYS-5019A-FTN4 for pretty cheap as a primary network box: running things such as NUT, DNS, Wireguard, TailScale, Zabbix, Wol, etc., and It’s done great, but for some reason has an issue with the 6.2+ kernels. So I’m thinking of replacing it before I run into maintenance issues over time, and maybe use it as a new opnsense server.

Would this be able to handle 10G+, or would something else be better?

Specs:

https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5019/SYS-5019A-FTN4.cfm

Motherboard: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/A2SDi-8C-HLN4F

Cpu (embedded):

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97926/intel-atom-processor-c3758-16m-cache-up-to-2-20-ghz.html

Added:

128 GB RAM - SK Hynix 64GB 4DRx4 PC4-2400T DDR4 HMAA8GL7AMR4N-UH Server RAM

2x10GB SFP+: Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro MCX312B-XCCT CX312B 2-Port 10GbE SFP+ Ethernet Adapter

128 gb so Hynix ssd (from factory) - boot, os

4x 1 tv samsung 980 ssd (storage, etc).