[colug-432] pfSense Re: tracking WAN data usage

[William Yang]

Disclaimer: far from a cool kid.  ;-)

I've got pfSense running on ALIX boards (the oldest ones) and APU2 boards
(newer ones) from PC Engines (pcengines.ch)... but I'm not really satisfied
with performance, energy use, heat issues, or reliability.  I really think
the APU2's overheat, and I know the ALIX boards did under high throughput
circumstances.

I also have pfSense running in a VM under libvirt/KVM... but ever since I
cut that into primary use, I've noticed periodic and substantive issues
with network reliability.

I built a fanless 2-NIC mini ITU box about 2 years ago -- and that's
probably the best I've had (until the SSD failed mysteriously).  That's
probably the best direction to go.

All that said... I'm not sure I need the feature fullness that is pfSense.
I've strongly considered, on numerous occasions, just setting up DNS, DHCP,
routing/NAT and iptables.


On 10/09/2016 03:48 PM, Jeff Frontz wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com
> <mailto:richardjhornsby at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have pfSense as my home router,
> 
> 
> What're all the cool kids using to host pfSense at home nowadays?  Is
> there some well-defined/no-brainer/cheap go-to box?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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William Yang
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