Help with pfSense box

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Can you guys make me a good $150-200 pfSense box? It needs to have wifi and 2 ethernet ports, i dont care if its ssd or hdd, case needs to  be small form factor (so I can hide it places). Thanks

[BrinkGG]

Main box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-SFF-Desktop-PC-Core-2-Duo-3-00GHz-4GB-RAM-160GB-HDD-Linux-/381565328744?hash=item58d710dd68:g:BvsAAOSwFGNWTJZB

 

NIC: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pro-1000-Dual-PORT-GIGABIT-ETHERNET-PCIe-NIC-Card-EXPI9402PT-NC360T-/252245863355?hash=item3abb066bbb:g:mSgAAOSwoydWlMGk

 

Wireless card depends more on what speeds you want, just make sure you get a chipset that is supported. 

Here's a list of supported ones from PFsense, but that isn't all of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11cF4UoNL68Me5ZC6qhjFPmzdW7mib56dBIAKz30Qpug/edit?hl=en#gid=0

[BrinkGG]

18 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWIns said:

Can you guys make me a good $150-200 pfSense box? It needs to have wifi and 2 ethernet ports, i dont care if its ssd or hdd, case needs to  be small form factor (so I can hide it places). Thanks

Sometimes you can snag people's prebuilt off of ebay too. 

I can also do a pcpartpicker build if you prefer new. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

2 hours ago, Brink2Three said:

Main box: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-8000-Elite-SFF-Desktop-PC-Core-2-Duo-3-00GHz-4GB-RAM-160GB-HDD-Linux-/381565328744?hash=item58d710dd68:g:BvsAAOSwFGNWTJZB

 

NIC: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pro-1000-Dual-PORT-GIGABIT-ETHERNET-PCIe-NIC-Card-EXPI9402PT-NC360T-/252245863355?hash=item3abb066bbb:g:mSgAAOSwoydWlMGk

 

Wireless card depends more on what speeds you want, just make sure you get a chipset that is supported. 

Here's a list of supported ones from PFsense, but that isn't all of them: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11cF4UoNL68Me5ZC6qhjFPmzdW7mib56dBIAKz30Qpug/edit?hl=en#gid=0

Thanks

[denniS_redbeast]

14 hours ago, Brink2Three said:

Sometimes you can snag people's prebuilt off of ebay too. 

I can also do a pcpartpicker build if you prefer new. 

I know that I'm not the one who made this thread but can you please do a pcparpicker build for those who are curious. Thank you. 

[BrinkGG]

On 4/9/2016 at 1:43 PM, denniS_redbeast said:

I know that I'm not the one who made this thread but can you please do a pcparpicker build for those who are curious. Thank you. 

Yep! just saw this now so I will be posting it in 10 or so. 

[BrinkGG]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/G4wJFT

This is the base of what I would use. You really don't need much more then that for PFsense. 

 

[Huntsman]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MCTgYJ

 

This is what I would use as a base. I've beefed up the processor and RAM because with those you could run some pretty intensive firewall and software on the pfsense. Newer generation processor would keep your electricity bill low. Also brink2three forgot to add in a network card, don't believe that mobo has dual NIC.

 

What's the use of a pfsense if you can't fully leverage what it could offer. Might as well buy an off the shelf router and be done with it.

 

As for wifi, I don't recommend running wifi from it. Best to buy a separate AP.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

5 hours ago, Huntsman said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MCTgYJ

 

This is what I would use as a base. I've beefed up the processor and RAM because with those you could run some pretty intensive firewall and software on the pfsense. Newer generation processor would keep your electricity bill low. Also brink2three forgot to add in a network card, don't believe that mobo has dual NIC.

 

What's the use of a pfsense if you can't fully leverage what it could offer. Might as well buy an off the shelf router and be done with it.

 

As for wifi, I don't recommend running wifi from it. Best to buy a separate AP.

So far I have found that pfSense routers give you faster up and down speeds. Thats why, plus my family needs a new router

[BrinkGG]

5 hours ago, Huntsman said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MCTgYJ

Also brink2three forgot to add in a network card, don't believe that mobo has dual NIC.

 

As for wifi, I don't recommend running wifi from it. Best to buy a separate AP.

 

I knew I was forgetting something! My bad. 

And I agree with the wireless card as well. Go for something separate from the PFsense box for WiFi in house.  

[TubsAlwaysWins]

39 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

I knew I was forgetting something! My bad. 

And I agree with the wireless card as well. Go for something separate from the PFsense box for WiFi in house.  

Well my issue with that is I hear Ubiquity access points are hard to set up and I hear you can use existing routers as access points, but I tried that and ended up having to reset one of my routers and I think I might have bricked one (a router) ((I am currently working on a 'experimental' pfSense box))

[Huntsman]

It has alot of options. It's like iphone vs android, iphone is considered easy to use because it has less options than android.

 

Yes, you could use an existing router as AP. I'm doing it with a TP-link router. Just connect to the switch and not the WAN port and set up wifi. Remember to disable DHCP server or put it in forwarding mode. DHCP should be handled by pfsense.

 

How could you brick a router just by settings? Unless you flashed something, it's highly unlikely to get bricked.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

20 hours ago, Huntsman said:

It has alot of options. It's like iphone vs android, iphone is considered easy to use because it has less options than android.

 

Yes, you could use an existing router as AP. I'm doing it with a TP-link router. Just connect to the switch and not the WAN port and set up wifi. Remember to disable DHCP server or put it in forwarding mode. DHCP should be handled by pfsense.

 

How could you brick a router just by settings? Unless you flashed something, it's highly unlikely to get bricked.

The router wouldnt let you log onto it. I fixed it