Untangle

[Mikey]

Many untangle users here, used pfsense and Unifi recently and pfsense all day long over unifi, but like the reporting of the Untangle. Briefly tried untangle as a VM, but would get a cheap AMD Athlon 200ge build together. Got a number of dual and quad port NICs lying around.

Untangle unit, I'd prob add 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD

 

[Mikey]

Nice. Is there a question here somewhere?

Anyone using it...

 

[Mikey]

Yes (though it changes regularly). Hardware wise without knowing what you intend to do, your hardware seems like potential overkill... then again I was running a R210-II (Xeon 1270/8GB/120GB) till I downsized to an Zotac SFF (i3 7100u/16GB/120GB). My connection is relatively slow (210/35ish) and my usual load relatively light with a few VLAN's and VPN tunnels. If I had symmetrical gigabit, i'd likely go intel NIC's for the hardware offload and focus on what protocol I wanted to use for VPN encryption.

I agree prob overkill, but when I haven't got spare kit with the exception of DDR4 RAM and SATA disks, the AMD solution looks good value. CPU + HSF, ITX, case, motherboard

 

[Mikey]

Well time to build a list of components and see what the costs come out at in excel