In most cases, an old PC will work just fine for router/firewall since pf is not a resource hog.
However, if you intend to have the box handle all kinds of tasks - proxy, cache, routing, firewall, logging or especially heavy traffic, you better upgrade it, or better yet, just get a box with higher specs - emphasis on NICs and RAM.

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On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Billy <billyx5@gmail.com> wrote:
So after looking long and hard I have decided that I'll go the pfsense route.

I am curious though, for those that have this setup what is your hardware configuration like? Did you:
- Setup on an old PC
- Did you get dedicated hardware like Netgate (http://store.netgate.com/-P216C83.aspx)
- Setup on your main server
- Did you build from ground up getting all parts and setting up a PC
- other?

Related - what else are you running in your setup (Snort, Squid...)?

Will appreciate the feedback.

-Billy

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On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Billy <billyx5@gmail.com> wrote:
So after looking long and hard I have decided that I'll go the pfsense route.

I am curious though, for those that have this setup what is your hardware configuration like? Did you:
- Setup on an old PC
- Did you get dedicated hardware like Netgate (http://store.netgate.com/-P216C83.aspx)
- Setup on your main server
- Did you build from ground up getting all parts and setting up a PC
- other?

Related - what else are you running in your setup (Snort, Squid...)?

Will appreciate the feedback.

-Billy

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