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Qotom box?

an0nymous

Hi,

I'm thinking of either using Sophos XG home or pfsense. Not sure which atm, and it'd be appreciated if anyone has their thoughts. The Sophos UTM for home is restricted to 50 IPs which is a hit annoying but I believe that the XG does similar stuff?

I like the idea of a real firewall appliance too. I'm guessing it needs to be AES-NI capabale. What do people recommend for hardware say from the Qotom or similar line?

I don't really want to run this on a PC given the sheer size and because I don't use PCs these days. A hardware appliance would be much nicer in general

Would I need a beefy i7 box?



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    I've been running Sophos XG on a Qotom Q335G4 for the past 2-3+ years with no issues. Previous to that I did try pfSense and OPNsense, but I prefer Sophos XG since I find it much easier to work with and setup (especially when it comes to configuring IPS). With Sophos XG v17, I was still able to achieve ~500Mbps down with basically everything enabled (application filtering, IPS policies, web filtering, ATP, etc.). With v18 and the new Xstream architecture, I'm pretty sure speedtest.com just ends up using the Xstream fast flow path so I'm able to achieve 900+ Mbps down on my 1Gb ISP. My CPU usage statistics over the past month are "Max 3.58% || Avg 1.97%". I actually just bumped up the maxpkts setting in the IPS from the default of 8 to 100 and there seems to be essentially no change to CPU usage. All that to say, I think it's a great box for home use with Sophos XG.

    Also, I think v18 home version supports up to 8Gb. It use to be 6Gb but ever since v18, I'm seeing 8Gb available even with the latest release. You also don't need a 60GB HDD. I'm running a 32GB SSD and it's plenty of space for home use. I'm not sure what the actual minimum is.

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    I've been running Sophos XG on a Qotom Q335G4 for the past 2-3+ years with no issues. Previous to that I did try pfSense and OPNsense, but I prefer Sophos XG since I find it much easier to work with and setup (especially when it comes to configuring IPS). With Sophos XG v17, I was still able to achieve ~500Mbps down with basically everything enabled (application filtering, IPS policies, web filtering, ATP, etc.). With v18 and the new Xstream architecture, I'm pretty sure speedtest.com just ends up using the Xstream fast flow path so I'm able to achieve 900+ Mbps down on my 1Gb ISP. My CPU usage statistics over the past month are "Max 3.58% || Avg 1.97%". I actually just bumped up the maxpkts setting in the IPS from the default of 8 to 100 and there seems to be essentially no change to CPU usage. All that to say, I think it's a great box for home use with Sophos XG.

    Also, I think v18 home version supports up to 8Gb. It use to be 6Gb but ever since v18, I'm seeing 8Gb available even with the latest release. You also don't need a 60GB HDD. I'm running a 32GB SSD and it's plenty of space for home use. I'm not sure what the actual minimum is.

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