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MINI PC with 2 NIC cards for full house traffic Sophos XG

Dears,

 

I hope this post finds you well, I'm planning to get all the traffic "wired & wireless" by Sophos XG, So i need a mini pc with two nic cards. The mini pc will have sophos and one port connected to  router and the other port will be connected to wireless broadcaster to get people connected

 

There are many mini pc such as ZBOX and XPC, do you have any recommendation as I'm looking to 6GB or 4 GB RAM and nice processor  for good price as I'm playing games and streaming online.

 

My expectation is somthing around 300$ is that possible ? if not then I will push my limits

 

Regards



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  • AbdullahMohammed,

    the latest version of XG should support the same HW list like UTM9:

    https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118185

    Pay attention that with home license (4 Core and 6 GB of RAM) you have to pay attention of how much bandwidth you have and filters you want to apply.

    Thanks

  • I can tell you that this hardware will work, however you will probably need to install a hard drive as the on-board storage would not show as a bootable device when I installed SFOS v16 on  this device.

    YF850 from Kaser Corp
    https://www.kasercorp.com/index.php/en/short-codes/signage#.WDaSc3eZPcM

    I didn't get very far with support from Kaser Corp, but I have successfully installed and was running the latest v16 until 11/17/2016, I needed the hard drive for a different purpose, I have ordered another SSD to install in the unit and will be reinstalling v16 next week when the SSD arrives.

     

    *boring details*

    I was able to install SFOS v16 (or it appeared it installed anyway) to the onboard storage, but it never showed as a bootable device.  (The only OS I was able to get to see and boot from the internal storage was Windows 10...)

    At any rate, you will need to either connect a CD/DVD drive via USB to the device, or make a bootable USB flash drive for SFOS v16.  I used the CD method to install...

    I didn't have any issues with performance, the device has 4 GB of RAM so it was plenty for my testing environment 2 computers (as close to simultaneous as I could get) both loading multiple video streams, sending and receiving email from about 5 accounts, plus streaming video to my phone.  I was surprised that it handled all of that at one time.

    At any rate, I would not count on getting any actual help from the manufacturer, but if you add your own drive, it will be a fairly straightforward install.

    The SSD I had installed up until last week is a 250 GB Samsung 750 EVO, you should be able to find them for under $100.  So all in all, your looking at around $350 - $400 depending on shipping, etc.  You can find other smaller SSDs for less money.

    I looked at several different options, Zotac was one that had dual NICs, I can't recall which other devices I looked at besides Zotac, but I spent days researching options... 
    Give this one a try, I think it will work for you...

  • I forgot to mention, you won't be able to use the onboard WiFi with SFOS...

  • Thanks man great support, Alsi I'm looking now to do mini pc build as I can see many challenges with mini pcs