We use the Alix boxes a lot in the office, but when I built one for home I picked up an small AMD system from Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119057 (when it was on sale for $99). I put in 4 GB of RAM and a 32 GB SSD I had laying around. With this switch http://routerboard.com/RB250GS and using vlans, I have 4 NICs to play with. It has worked really well so far. I've stuck the switch to the top of the box w/ industrial Velcro so it's not going anywhere.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:50 AM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: [pfSense] Low(ish) cost pfSense platforms Greetings list, For many years I've been deploying pfSense on ALIX boards. They've proven to be reliable and a good balance between cost and performance. Price in the UK is about 120 GBP (including PSU and chassis), which means that they're cost-comparable with Draytek's higher end units (which is their primary competition amongst our SME client base). Recently, we've had need to deploy pfSense with more than 3 network interfaces, and unfortunately the ALIX boards seem to top out at 3. A 4-port unit based on the same AMD Geode architecture more than doubles the price to around £250 GBP. Has anyone any suggestions for a 4-port alternative that's closer to the 3-port cost? Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
