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Hardware for home firewall

IngoPohlschneider
Hello everyone
I have one virtualized UTM running at my current home but I am also planning to have one on a second location I live

Any suggestions for check hardware that does the job?

It should be low energy, 3 NiCs (two would work too using VLAN), silent (WAF required [;)] ) and of course support activation off all UTM features (+ future new features), so not too slow.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys use at home

Best regards


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    Atom's are not powerfull enough for IPS.
    I used one, but with only webfiltering (and no IPS) I only got about 80Mbps on speedtest.
    Get a high MHz powerfull processor.
    I just bought a Haswell i5 4570 which does a good job and with about everything switched on can use the full bandwidth of my ISP (150Mbps).

    If power usage if of any concern than go for 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors.

    It seems i3 is also powerfull enough, but use one with high MHz ranking.

    My current (i5) system draws between 32 and 33 Watts when idle (which it is most of the time in my home situation).

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    Atom's are not powerfull enough for IPS.
    I used one, but with only webfiltering (and no IPS) I only got about 80Mbps on speedtest.
    Get a high MHz powerfull processor.
    I just bought a Haswell i5 4570 which does a good job and with about everything switched on can use the full bandwidth of my ISP (150Mbps).

    If power usage if of any concern than go for 4th generation Intel Core (Haswell) processors.

    It seems i3 is also powerfull enough, but use one with high MHz ranking.

    My current (i5) system draws between 32 and 33 Watts when idle (which it is most of the time in my home situation).

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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