Hardware requirements for link 300/50 and 1000/300

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What is hardware requirements for link 300/50 and second device for 1000/300 link? 
 Its sophos home firewall its right for this ? Running ids/ids , VPN

alan weir · Answer

The limitations for the home license of Sophos firewall XG is 4 CPU cores and has a limitation of 6Gb or RAM maximum. For your scenario it depends on how many users you will have. 
 There is no official hardware compatibility list, but the requirements are: 
 The system (motherboard) you use must support legacy BIOS and booting in legacy mode. 
 Intel "server oriented" NICs are recommended since they are the most compatible. Most dual port LAN PCIe cards you buy are "server grade" and will mostly work. Obviously try to avoid NICs from Realtek since these are less supported. 
 Some of the newer Intel NICs are not supported yet such as the i219 and i225, so be careful if using one of the fanless firewall appliances. Ultimately you may need to virtualize your firewall using KVM, Hyper-V or ESXi to run the Sophos Firewall on "unsupported" hardware. This may be difficult depending on your skillset. 
 The choice of hard drive is up to you, but a minimum of 64Gb seems to be the norm. A consumer 256Gb SSD is no issue. 
 If you are building a system yourself you will need a fast enough CPU to handle a gigabit download speed, but generally any modern dual/quad core CPU should work fine. I'd recommend any CPU 3 Ghz or faster. This is just a recommendation. Slower CPUs may work fine if you don't need too many IDS rules. 
 A good motherboard that seems fast enough would be a mini-ITX from Asrock, the Asrock J5040 mini-ITX, and it seems to be one of the only mini-ITX worth getting these days, as many of the older ones are very slow such as the J1900. 
 So it depends on if you are building your own system or wanting to go with a firewall appliance.

Hardware requirements for link 300/50 and 1000/300

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