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you gots some serious IT/electronic skillz if you dabble with that APU2D4! why no pi4? If it wasn't for my investment into my Ubiquiti setup, I would of went pfsense on either my i7-4770 NUC or Pi4pfSense® - World's Most Trusted Open Source Firewall
pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more
its an open source firewall/router distribution based on FreeBSD. its weak spot is it does not do a very good job on wireless, so I use 'real' wireless access points, and my pfsense is just the ethernet firewall/router. I'm running pfsense on a small appliance router board known as an APU2D4, its a 4-core 1Ghz ultra-low power AMD 64 bit CPU with 4GB ram, that boots off a mSATA card and has 3 gigE ports for running different subnets.
yeah, that would work fine. key is decent NICs, like Intel Pro1000's... the sort of cheap Realtek nics often found on consumer PCs mainboards aren't very efficient in a router. but it also depends on your internet speeds, my cable modem can hit 800Mbps so I need gigE ports that can really maintain gigE w/o a lot of cpu overhead, the Intel chips do that nicely.
you could get lost for a good 6 months going straight autistic on networking with pfSense and a good switch like UniFi. Ask me how I know this. And you'll only be scratching the surface of what its capable of.
That's what I have done. Only exception is I installed a Intel 4-port Low Form Factor Ethernet card in it to get extra sub-nets like for WiFi access points and IOT devices. Will be transitioning over to a fanless device with mSATA and 4 ethernet ports when I get everthing worked out. There is no need for serious CPU power in a pfSense setup. A Celeron is really more than enough.
thats a rather old 73W tdp CPU. If this is for pfsense, I don't think that CPU has AES-NI instructions, so VPNs and anything else doing crypto will be high overhead.
