Posted: 6/8/2016 2:42:19 AM EDT
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While on vacation my supermicro server running PfSense gave up the ghost. Looked like it was a power supply, but after swapping it out its still dead. Looks like I would need to buy a new board for around $340. So before I go off to order it, any arfcom geeks have any suggestions for alternative firewall/IDS solutions within the same price range. Looking around the little SOHO appliances look like a kids toy in comparison to what I am able to do with PfSense on my current hardware. Ive been eyeballing the EdgeRouter but its only a firewall with some pretty sad hardware in it, and no IDS. Some of the features I really like are: - Region/Country blocking - VPN, both server and client - snort - rackmounted Im thinking there isn't anything else, but I am no expert when it comes to what is available. |
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Quoted: Just get one of their boxes for $300: https://www.pfsense.org/products/ Not enough NIC ports on the $300. My current board has 4, of which I use three. This is basically what I have. I bet its even the same board that I am using. The SOC is the same at least. Not sure how many variations of that combo Intel puts out. |