What's a nice and small but also powerful computer I can put pfSense on? I'd like to run an IPS and other little services and generally do whatever I want with my router.
Pic related is a common Chinese mini PC, which have decent processors for not terrible VPN throughput. There's some others that have things like SFP and some other I/O like an SD card slot that I'll definitely never have to use but I like having everything and being versatile.
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not OP but a big noob here. Would I be able to plug that router into any other wifi router? My GF has the last model apple airport extreme and the wifi is good enough to the point where i haven't bothered upgrading it. Would I be able to have this router connect to the apple router for wifi with the protection of pfsense? Until I buy an actual wifi access point that isn’t apple crap
I use one of those minipcs as router but mine only has two gbe ports.
Those things are quite awesome and very versatile because you can turn them into anything and the processor uses like 4W at max load on all cores, also supports AES-NI.
Yes.
Which one have you got? I got mine before the AES-NI requirement was announced, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do when pfsense switches to it.
Yes. I have a unifi ac-pro access point behind my pfsense box.
Should I just get the unifi security router instead? Because I was looking into those unifi APs too.
