I am looking for a hardware recommendation to use in my home, I was initially thinking a Pi 3, but that may not be enough muscle wise. I am have a 2 gig fiber connection in my home, with about 30 devices connected. I am looking for hardware that will allow me to stick as close to my 2 gig speed with utilizing IDS. I also have another location with a one gig connection, would I need half the memory and cpu to run that same setup at that location? Thanks!
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While you usually don’t need too much RAM and CPU power for running IPFire (4 GB RAM and a dual-core CPU with more than 1.5 GHz should be fine for most small networks), fast and good NICs are really important. Raspberry Pis don’t fit the bill here - you can expect them to work fine for a “firewall in a pocket” solution you need once in a while on travels or similar, but do not want them to serve as your primary firewall in your home.
I see. Personally, I would recommend this appliance for your scenario, as it fits the bill, is tested and known to work with IPFire perfectly, and future-proof.
(Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the company selling it. )
This question has been discussed multiple times. Please refer to threads such as this one for further information on combining IPFire and PiHole.
You should have at least a Board with 2,5Gbit/sec or better for RED onboard (or buy a addon card) and buy a additional 10GBits/sec addon Card for GREEN to connect to a 10G switch.
No they can’t and the PC doesn’t fit your needs. You will need to build the PC on your own. With 30 (linked) network members you will also need a 10G switch with lots of ports. This will be 19" so I think you will have a 19" rack and therefore you can build up a 19" 2U/3U/4U firewall.
With this built, I wouldn’t call it “home”. This is small business.
I love doing stuff like that, would it be a regular tower PC or is there a recommendation for a place to get hardware from? If it’s a regular.PC, thats not too difficult of a task, I already have the switching side under control. I’m eyeing doing a 2U server chassis for it and than picking parts from there. Power consumption is not too much of a concern.
ATM I build small business Firewalls with the Chenbro RM24100-L, MSI MS-98N9 mainboard and the Intel 10100T(E). I don’t have an AMD option because of not finding reliable IPC/industrial AM4 ATX boards.
In case of 10Gbit is use Intel X550-T2/X710-T4 cards. Coolers are bought from Noctua for the case and Dynatron for the cpu cooler.