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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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  • +1

    Hi,

    the XG home licence limits are

    1/. 6gb ram

    2/. 4 CPUs

     

    Recommendations

    1/. The fastest quad core CPU you can buy, does not need to be i7 or even i5. The XG does not use the inbuilt maths-coprocessor

    2/. real NICs, and not intel 219

    3/. t least 60gb of disk

    If you have an old PC which not a power hungry device and can take an extra NIC, go for it.

    QOTOM boxes are good, but be wary of the NICs.

    At this stage the home licence does not use AES.

    Finally, please do a search of these forums for a number of threads on this subject.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:
    Hi,

    the XG home licence limits are

    1/. 6gb ram

    2/. 4 CPUs

    Recommendations

    1/. The fastest quad core CPU you can buy, does not need to be i7 or even i5. The XG does not use the inbuilt maths-coprocessor

    2/. real NICs, and not intel 219

    3/. t least 60gb of disk

    If you have an old PC which not a power hungry device and can take an extra NIC, go for it.

    QOTOM boxes are good, but be wary of the NICs.

    At this stage the home licence does not use AES.

    Finally, please do a search of these forums for a number of threads on this subject.

    Ian

    Hi, what's wrong with their NICs?

  • +1 in reply to an0nymous

    Hi,

    in general terms there is nothing wrong with Intel NICs, just the 219 series are not supported in XG.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:
    Hi,

    in general terms there is nothing wrong with Intel NICs, just the 219 series are not supported in XG.

    Ian

    Thanks. I've noticed that the Qotom type of boxes people have searched for ie: Qotom q3555g4, q305g4, g330g4, q350g4, and g370g4 are sometimes used. Should these be fine given that they're i211 NICs?

    I'm not sure what other box I could buy then given that I'd want something about as small as said Qotom box?

    Would one from Pondesk work fine? Just had a look and even they use Intel NICs but not necessarily the 219 ones

  • +1 in reply to an0nymous

    Hi,

    there are others in forum who use boxes from Pondesk.

    Ian

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