The pfsense Club

New to pfsense-

After having one crappy manufactures router after another I decided to build one. It didn't seem like it would be a hard thing to understand after a couple months reading on the subject. Since I've started using a router/PC I've noticed the difference, as my Dlink and Linksys would constantly freeze from heavy loads. I've not had that issue since installing a pfsense router/firewall. I'm pleased I made the decision to build my router out of old PC parts. It so far is the best router I've ever owned.

I primarily game, stream and surf. The second PC in the house likes to stream, play flash games, surf and use the network printer -to which I dedicated a subnet with no WAN interface-. I also have a network drive for the home to store music, movies and shared files so that the individual PC's don't have to have 'file share' enabled. The third PC in the house is a dedicated HTPC with Internet, to which it has its own subnet and is not accessible by any PC on the network, but the HTPC can access the network drive in the primary subnet. I have no Wifi, don't want it!

AMD Winchester 2.2GHz 939sckt
MSI/Via K8M890m2-v, 1GB SuperTalent PC3200
Maxtor 40GB IDE, x2 ENLGA-1320 NIC[Realtek chip RTL8186], Netgear FS605 Switch
Pfsense 1.2.2 - Packages: Bandwidthd, iperf, rate

Here is a post of mine about 'Watchdog Timeouts'[WDTO] in pfsense forum.

Hey there!

As of yesterday, I have installed pfsense on my routing-pc as well.
It's running on:
ASRock G31MG-S Socket 775 mATX (GBit-lan onboard)
1.8 GHz Intel Celeron D 430 (passively cooled with a Sharkoon cooler, don't remember the name, though)
2gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator (they were unused otherwise)
LevelOne GNC-0105T Gigabit PCI Ethernet Card
EW-7128G Card (54) WLAN PCI Card
all in a asus vento s6 µATX-case that came with a (suprisingly silent) 250W-PSU. So currently, the only fan is the 80mm PSU-fan.

It's used mainly for gaming, but also for remote-controlling work-pcs.

The reason I got it was partly, because I had some trouble with my USRobotics router, but also because i just liked the idea of trying it out.

There is one gaming PC (running boinc) connected via LAN, and (mainly in the evenings) two additional laptops and the occasional smartphone connecting using WLAN.

first to join in 2010, wwwoooooooo

My pfsense box is running:
Asus A8V Deluxe 939 skt mobo (gbit lan onboard)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.0gHz (just to say "i have an overclocked router")
1 gB Samsung DDR RAM (2x 512mB)
2x Intel PRO/1000 GT NIC's
ghetto rigged 9550 for display
2gB Kingston DataTraveller

One of the Intel NIC's is a WAN, the other is LAN which goes to my old router and hopefully a switch soon. The onboard LAN (LAN2) goes to my server which runs a lot of things. LAN2 is bridged to LAN and there is a firewall allowing members on LAN2 to connect to LAN to obtain a DHCP address.

So far i am very pleased with the capabilities of pfsense. It seems to be able to handle loads and giving things addresses a lot more efficiently then my old router, seems that the slowdown from everyone (10-13 computers in my house, I've lost track...) connecting to the internet is also pleasantly gone.

I hope to continue to use pfsense for as long as i can, probably the best thing i could do for my network

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Quote:
If you are not familiar with cisco.
You don't want to buy cisco hardware.
You have an extra pc laying around.

You can get enterprise level hardware to run pfsense too. (premade low wattage boxes, multiple nics, etc...)

I just wonted to post how i feel it's to bad that this fourm never really took off.

My current setup is a:

Shuttle PC:

Intel P4 3.06 Ghz HT 800MHz
2x 1GB DDR
250 GB Harddrive

Nics:

1Gbps on board - Lan
100Mbps on board - Wan

2x 1Gbps PCI

Intel E3-1230
8GB Ram
120GB Crucial M4
1GBPS ports in/out

It filters traffic to my gameservers. Mostly the country of China.

0 moving parts. Turion 64, 512 mb of ram, an atheros NIC, and some 6 dbi antennas.

@Idiot

Is that a wall-mounted laptop? It sure looks like one...