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I have just done the same, except instead I went with a Server 2016 build with a Sophos UTM9 Firewall VM sitting on top of it.
The Sophos UTM is a great firewall/router OS for x86/x64. It's free and really user friendly.
I spent a lot of time reseaching the right Celeron board that would be up to the task of Gigabit UFB I get installed on monday coming.
I had a some criteria.
1. It needed to be low power - this was going to be running all day and night and I didn't want to both pay for expensive fibre, and an expensive power bill.
2. The platform needed to have at least 2x PCI-E 4X or 8X or 16X as I have a 4 port I350-T4 4 port Intel Nic I wanted to use, and for below, a 2x4 Mini SAS RAID CARD
3. It needed to support virtualisation so I was able to have both a Windows OS and a router OS sitting on the box. Windows for an old billing application I use and to be a NAS for the home.
4. It needed to be cheaper than buying a router, and a empty NAS.
I ended up not being able to find a Celeron board that suited my needs, none had that many PCI express slots nor an alternative like Dual INTEL Nics or RAID on motherboard. I also wanted to build it on labour weekend as a bit of a project so it being in stock was also required.
I ended up seeing what I could do around pricing for a Skylake platform. Interestingly you could buy a B150M motherboard and Pentium G4400 for less than the top tier Celeron board in stock (N3710) but you would get many more features.
So...
I put together a very low end Skylake build
Intel G4400 3.3Ghz dual core (includes crappy box cooler that is fine for this job)
Asrock B150 Pro4/Hyper
2x 4GB DDR4 2133Mhz
120GB Kingston SSD
Crapp4 400W PSU
Even Crappier mATX Case.
4x Seagate Baracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD's
I added to this with my own
Intel I350-T4 off Ebay
Intel 2x4 port mini sas pci-e card off ebay + mini sas to 4 sata break out cable.
This has all gone together quite nicely. I am still using VDSL at the moment, but getting the Sophos up and running is a breeze, there is a little bit of learning how to get the nat working and there is no UPNP so you need to manually allow ports outgoing.
It's installed in my cupboard now, my fibre install is on Monday so with some configuration I will be able to give you some stats. I have also ordered two 10Gbit Mellanox ConnectX-2 Nics that I will use between this and my workstation for that 10000Mbps love.
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I have just done the same, except instead I went with a Server 2016 build with a Sophos UTM9 Firewall VM sitting on top of it.
The Sophos UTM is a great firewall/router OS for x86/x64. It's free and really user friendly.
I spent a lot of time reseaching the right Celeron board that would be up to the task of Gigabit UFB I get installed on monday coming.
I had a some criteria.
1. It needed to be low power - this was going to be running all day and night and I didn't want to both pay for expensive fibre, and an expensive power bill.
2. The platform needed to have at least 2x PCI-E 4X or 8X or 16X as I have a 4 port I350-T4 4 port Intel Nic I wanted to use, and for below, a 2x4 Mini SAS RAID CARD
3. It needed to support virtualisation so I was able to have both a Windows OS and a router OS sitting on the box. Windows for an old billing application I use and to be a NAS for the home.
4. It needed to be cheaper than buying a router, and a empty NAS.
I ended up not being able to find a Celeron board that suited my needs, none had that many PCI express slots nor an alternative like Dual INTEL Nics or RAID on motherboard. I also wanted to build it on labour weekend as a bit of a project so it being in stock was also required.
I ended up seeing what I could do around pricing for a Skylake platform. Interestingly you could buy a B150M motherboard and Pentium G4400 for less than the top tier Celeron board in stock (N3710) but you would get many more features.
So...
I put together a very low end Skylake build
Intel G4400 3.3Ghz dual core (includes crappy box cooler that is fine for this job)
Asrock B150 Pro4/Hyper
2x 4GB DDR4 2133Mhz
120GB Kingston SSD
Crapp4 400W PSU
Even Crappier mATX Case.
4x Seagate Baracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD's
I added to this with my own
Intel I350-T4 off Ebay
Intel 2x4 port mini sas pci-e card off ebay + mini sas to 4 sata break out cable.
This has all gone together quite nicely. I am still using VDSL at the moment, but getting the Sophos up and running is a breeze, there is a little bit of learning how to get the nat working and there is no UPNP so you need to manually allow ports outgoing.
It's installed in my cupboard now, my fibre install is on Monday so with some configuration I will be able to give you some stats. I have also ordered two 10Gbit Mellanox ConnectX-2 Nics that I will use between this and my workstation for that 10000Mbps love.
Thanks for all of that info, that is an awesome setup. Are you confident this will max a gigabit wan?
EDIT: Would something like this out perform an edge router lite?
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