Rilo Ravestein
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- Joined
- Mar 6, 2014
- Messages
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Hi all,
I've read a few things about pfsense. However, i can't seem to find a decent answer to my question about hardware requirements. Every time i ask (for example in the pfsense forum), i get VERY different answers. Since there is a lot of knowledge on hardware and of course FreeBSD here, and quite some folks using some kind of pfsense box, i'm hoping to get educated answers here.
My current situation is (i think) a pretty common home network scenario:
WAN
|
ISP Router
|
managed switch
|
--> NAS (FreeNAS...duh)
--> 2x Rapberry Pi B (1x Plex Home Theater, 1x XBMC)
--> TV (using Plex)
--> PlayStation 3
--> Wii (yep, still in use)
--> WAP 1
- Several phones (Apple & Android) & laptops (Windows & Linux)
- iPad
--> (W)AP 2
- TV (using Plex)
- Raspberry Pi B 2 (Plex Home Theater)
- PVR
- Several phones (Apple & Android) & laptops (Windows & Linux)
Of course all these devices need internet access, which currently is 150Mbit, will soon upgrade to 500Mbit. All is gigabit network hardware, except for some of the clients.
What i want:
- A decent firewall of course
- VPN access to my home network
- Use a VPN subscription service for private internet browsing on selected clients
- Per device internet filter to protect the kids (from illegal & adult content)
- Time-based internet acces per device - again for the kids of course
- The switch can manage VLANs, so that doesn't necessarily need to be done on the pfsense box i guess, but maybe it needs to be VLAN aware
- The Playstation generates a lot of traffic, which i want to separate from the rest of the network.
- I think i better put the media devices on a separate subnet
- I would like to be able to easily switch internet acces profiles (filter & time access) to be able to give the my friends and family full access, but not the kids' fiends that come (sleep) over. Or maybe there is some easier solution to achieve this?
So.... To get the maximum throughput for my current/future network setup, my main question would be: What hardware do i actually NEED? I am on a budget, since i already way overspent on my FreeNAS box
Second question would be how you guys would setup this network (VLANs, security, etc.)
Thanks!
I've read a few things about pfsense. However, i can't seem to find a decent answer to my question about hardware requirements. Every time i ask (for example in the pfsense forum), i get VERY different answers. Since there is a lot of knowledge on hardware and of course FreeBSD here, and quite some folks using some kind of pfsense box, i'm hoping to get educated answers here.
My current situation is (i think) a pretty common home network scenario:
WAN
|
ISP Router
|
managed switch
|
--> NAS (FreeNAS...duh)
--> 2x Rapberry Pi B (1x Plex Home Theater, 1x XBMC)
--> TV (using Plex)
--> PlayStation 3
--> Wii (yep, still in use)
--> WAP 1
- Several phones (Apple & Android) & laptops (Windows & Linux)
- iPad
--> (W)AP 2
- TV (using Plex)
- Raspberry Pi B 2 (Plex Home Theater)
- PVR
- Several phones (Apple & Android) & laptops (Windows & Linux)
Of course all these devices need internet access, which currently is 150Mbit, will soon upgrade to 500Mbit. All is gigabit network hardware, except for some of the clients.
What i want:
- A decent firewall of course
- VPN access to my home network
- Use a VPN subscription service for private internet browsing on selected clients
- Per device internet filter to protect the kids (from illegal & adult content)
- Time-based internet acces per device - again for the kids of course
- The switch can manage VLANs, so that doesn't necessarily need to be done on the pfsense box i guess, but maybe it needs to be VLAN aware
- The Playstation generates a lot of traffic, which i want to separate from the rest of the network.
- I think i better put the media devices on a separate subnet
- I would like to be able to easily switch internet acces profiles (filter & time access) to be able to give the my friends and family full access, but not the kids' fiends that come (sleep) over. Or maybe there is some easier solution to achieve this?
So.... To get the maximum throughput for my current/future network setup, my main question would be: What hardware do i actually NEED? I am on a budget, since i already way overspent on my FreeNAS box
Second question would be how you guys would setup this network (VLANs, security, etc.)
Thanks!