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I originally built this because I was curious about replacing my ISPs router and I had read a little bit about pfsense and Untangled. I obviously chose pfsense, I’m not sure what had tipped the scales in my head exactly but after testing it out in a VM I really liked the functionality and the web interface. Eventually I also realized that there are many benefits to running something like pfsense in your home, homelab, or even in SMB businesses. ISP all in one routers are generally providing NAT and extremely basic firewalling but, something like pfsense when configured correctly is going to have many more configuration options and can be secured better. I personally use my pfsense firewall to not only provide firewalling but routing, dhcp, and dns to my network. My network is actually double NAT’d, I’m running my whole network behind pfsense behind my ISPs router. This may or may not be the case for your network. Sometimes you can replace your ISPs router with something like pfsense.

The case I’m using is an iStarUSA D-214-mATX. This is a 2u rackmount case that's about 15 and a half inches wide. I reviewed this case a while back, check that review video out in the top right corner. This is a great budget option for a custom 2U server build, I can't recommend it enough. In terms of what's powering pfsense, I opted to go with an ASRock J3455M embedded Intel Celeron motherboard combo. This CPU is a quad core atom from the Apollo Lake series. The CPU runs at 1.5GHz base and is able to boost up to 2.3GHz depending on total CPU load and operating temperature. The motherboard is an embedded option from AsRock, it’s certainly a budget board but basically all I cared about was that it had a decent CPU, integrated video output for troubleshooting, and a few PCIE slots. I chose not to use the integrated NIC because it's a Realtek based chip. Realtek chips haven’t always been supported very well but these days most of them work, it probably would have worked but, I prefer using intel NICs. I opted for a half height quad port 1gig Intel NIC from eBay. Memory selection for this type of server isn't very important. Ideally, you would choose registered ECC memory but CPU and motherboard support for registered ECC RAM leads you down a more expensive build path with higher power draw. I am running this with a 4gb 1333MHz ddr3 dimm that I stress tested before installing. The SSD I’m using is very small, I bought a used one from ebay for the build.I will mention though, if you do this, you really should create a backup configuration file after you set your pf sense server up for the first time and add new files anytime you make changes.

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