pfSense 2.7.0 Homelab 2.5Gb Router + 10Gb Networking!
Source: YouTube · Digital Spaceport · published Aug 14, 2023 · 28:48
This video demonstrates building a high-performance pfSense router using a Ryzen 5 3600 system, showing significant speed improvements over the creator's previous i3-based setup 0:07. The creator plans to eventually virtualize this system as a Proxmox host while evaluating the performance impacts 0:35.
Key Takeaways:
• The build uses a Ryzen 5 3600, B450M motherboard, 16GB RAM, and includes a 2.5 gigabit Realtek NIC and 10 gigabit Mellanox ConnectX2 card 6:02
• After installing pfSense and enabling the 2.5 gigabit NIC, the creator sees sustained download speeds above 1 Gbps, better than ever before 21:32
• The system runs at surprisingly low power consumption (45-50 watts), making it more efficient than expected 16:05
• The creator plans to test virtualization performance impacts when converting to Proxmox, but is now hesitant due to the excellent performance 24:55
Future videos will cover a 100-gigabit networking switch setup, network diagram creation, and advanced pfSense configuration with VLANs and VPNs 25:35.
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have you been wanting to build out a PF sense router that has as much performance as it possibly can today we're going to be building out a wickedly fast PF sense router on this bare metal machine and we're going to see what kind of performance we can get I'm using this to power the backbone for our house and also hopefully to give us some amazing performance on our Wan if you've been following along with these tasks and you feel like I do that you want your home network to be as good as possible then this video might have some pretty interesting things for you sound off in the comments below and let me know what it is you're using right now for your router software in the future this PF sends box will become a proxbox host and that'll allow us to have a lot more utilization of the system …