[TriLUG] OT: Looking for better home router

Sat Oct 17 15:11:54 EDT 2015

There are a lot of cool things you can do if you're going to run pfSense.

I have personally used a few of these
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007>:
For $129, it's a Mintek knock-off from "OEM Production" with an Intel D2550
1.86Ghz dual-core Atom and dual Broadcom GbE NICs WITH case and power
supply.
...just add RAM and a USB stick or one of those Z-U130 flash drives I
mentioned earlier.

This also looks decent
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173122>:
For $139 ...same sort of thing but from Zotac with a Celeron 2961Y
dual-core 1.1Ghz and dual Realtek GbE NICs, 802.11ac wifi, WITH case and
power supply.
...again, just add RAM and flash drive.

This Jetway board
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153300> has a
quad-core at less than 5W, 7.5W TDP with QUAD Intel GbE NICs!!!

You can add Ethernet ports to most of these boards with a mini PCIe slot
adapter such as:
$51 dual Realtek GbE mini PCIe <http://www.logicsupply.com/8111me-d/>
adapter from Logic Supply
$90 dual Intel i350 GbE mini PCIe <http://www.logicsupply.com/admpeidla/>
adapter from Logic Supply

The boards with a PCIe 1x connector can use one of these Intel quad GbE
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4GH2558758> cards for
about $100.

Lots of options!

-Wes

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Xitech Communications, Inc.
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:35 PM, tj <bimasakti at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have J1800 with dual nic i340 on re-use 1U shortdepth supermicro server
> case.
> $35  j1800 mobo(new on newegg) + $35 ddr3l sodimm 8g ram( new on newegg) +
> $17 dual port i340 IBM(new from ebay + $9 dc2dc atx (used from ebay, not
> pico clone from chinese seller) +  $2 pcie 1X to 16X extension cable +
> available used parts in my hands: Intel 520 SSD 60G, 1U server, 12V
> powerbrick, hot glue/gun, and 2X40mm fans low speed including  a blower fan.
>
>
> the image: http://i.imgur.com/jrK3ugx.png?1
>
> running proxmox 3.4 with 3 VMs: ipcop, debian with openvpn client, and
> light duty debian.
>
> power consumption is amazing on baytrail D processor. mine is 10W-15W(max)
> that based on processing situation.
>
> this replaced old celeron mini-itx (esxi 5.5 with ipcop, and some ubuntu
> vms)
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> I use this Intel D2500CCE board with pfSense:
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007MS9OI2
>>
>> I like it because it has dual Intel Gigabit NICs.  I'm sure Broadcom and
>> Realtek chips are fine, but Intel's seem to be very well supported and
>> have
>> low overhead under BSD (pfSense) and Linux.
>>
>> I also like the Intel Z-U130 USB-header SLC flash drives
>> <
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060353.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XZ-U130.TRS0&_nkw=Z-U130&_sacat=0
>> >
>>
>> that
>> screw into these boards.  Hard to be $2/each on eBay.
>>
>> -Wes
>>
>> _________________________________
>> Wesley S. Garrison
>> Network Engineer
>> Xitech Communications, Inc.
>> phone:  (919) 260-0803
>> pager:   (919) 869-1744
>> fax:       (919) 932-5051
>> __________________________________
>> "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from email."
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Outstanding! This is precisely what I need to do. I love the dual
>> > built-in Gigabit NIC, and the two USB3 in case I need some additional
>> > fast Ethernet to support DMZ or Wireless zones! No fan, must be low
>> > power, perfect!
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:19:20 -0400
>> > Scott Miller via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Here are some older pics. I was using Debian, but am now trying
>> > > pfsense:
>> > >
>> > > http://imgur.com/a/OEN9C
>> > >
>> > > It's an Atom dual core cpu D2700, 4GB ram, dual gig broadcom nics, usb
>> > > 3.0, fanless and silent.
>> > >
>> > > Board ($25 used, from craigslist incl ram):
>> > >
>> > > http://www.jwele.com/motherboard_detail.php?1133
>> > >
>> > > Steel case ($37.50 new, amazon when available):
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Box-M350-Universal-Mini-ITX-Computer/dp/B005TX3LA4/
>> > >
>> > > I have replaced the pictured 2.5" drive with a 16G msata drive I had
>> > > laying around for pfsense.
>> > >
>> > > This box is super low power, fast, and silent!
>> > >
>> > > iperf test shows 943 Mbits/sec throughput
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG
>> > > <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I want to hear all about it. How many NICs? How many are Megabit?
>> > > > How many are USB, and if so, USB2 or USB3? Is it fanless? How many
>> > > > watts consumption.
>> > > >
>> >
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