I finally decided to buy a mini PC to make it as a pfsense router and I was wondering witch option is more suitable for my needs

First I was thinking of doing with proxmox so I could install pi-hole and wireguard in it but looking more into pfsense I see that there is PfblockerNG and also a Wireguard package that could be installed inside.

What does everybody in here use? I’m curious to know if thinkering in proxmox to run pfsense is more efficient than just installing bare-metal.

Thank you

Conclusion: will go with sole pfsense since I never used it in the first place, once accustomed will switch to proxmox, thank you everyone I hope there will be more posts like this in this platform

  • Petri@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Thank you @coffelov for your timely post - I was going to post a very similar question myself today. What sort of hardware are you considering to use for your pfsense server?

    There are a lot of possible solutions that could be suitable, wondering what sort of hardware you were thinking about.

    • coffelov@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I bought the Intel Celeron n5105 from some vendor called wooyi store on AliExpress, from what a saw on yt that CPU is a little overkill for a router and it uses too much idle power, but I think it was a good purchase for me bc I don’t plan to switch this router soom.

      • Petri@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yeah the n5105 looks like a nice little processor. I also liked that those boards come with the i226-V 2.5GbE controller.

        For myself, I really wanted wifi 6e and something able to mesh (for the happy wife factor) so I recently purchased the TP Link Deco. It should arrive in a week or so.

        Personally, I would have preferred to setup OpenWRT for a nice mesh but for some reason there are no Wifi 6 ones yet let alone 6e.

        • g7s@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Wifi Mesh is where you basically have multiple access points having the same ssid, right?

          • Petri@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Yes. And the devices also should be able to pass you between nodes for optimal reception.

            This can be done by openwrt too, with the right hardware.

            • g7s@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              Hmm, you can use openwrt as an “dumb” mesh access point? I tried to set it up as a router once, but wasn’t happy with how things work there. Might give it a chance again. Any hardware recommendations?