New firewall server (OPNsense)

Firewalls come in many forms, and you can run them on lots of different pieces of hardware. This one is going to be running OPNsense + Zenarmor. It's certainly beefier than your standard home gateway!
EXTRA CREDIT:
All Dell server model numbers follow a definite pattern: "T" or "R" tells you if it's tower or rack-mounted, the first number tells you roughly how beefy the server is, the second number tells you what generation the server is (the R250 is a Generation 15 server), and the last number tells you what type of CPU it is--0 means Intel, 5 means AMD.
Racks are measured in "units". This server is a 1U, or one-unit server, occupying just one unit of space. A six-foot rack is usually 42U of space.
A standard pizza box is also roughly 1U of space--it's an old sysadmin joke that you leave space in between your servers to keep your pizza warm! (Please don't actually do this; greasy pizza boxes and servers really should not be mixed.)

[@JasonsLabVideos]

The nice thing about this is it has so much potential & it won't suck the power all from the wall. R250 is a nice unit. Just add a pair of ssd's and a nice 10gig nic and your off to the races ! Good video BTW.

[@NextDoorNetAdmin]

Fun fact: turns out I needed an additional NIC for a redundant WAN connection. The unit accepted it without trouble and keeps on running like a champ!

[@javajav3004]

Great video bro!

[@Inphinityproductions]

Cool. I use pfsense.

[@pepeshopping]

Bs! For a router all you need is a dual core cpu and a pcie quad Ethernet. Done! But if your customers like to overpay for off the shelf solutions…

[@NextDoorNetAdmin]

If this was strictly a router, I would probably agree with you. But as I noted in the video description, this is a firewall. Specifically, this is going to be a layer 7 firewall inspecting traffic for about 1000 devices using a 1 Gbps synchronous connection. www.zenarmor.com/docs/introduction/hardware-requirements With that established, have I overbuilt a little? Possibly! But then, I need the stated requirements immediately, and I still need to take future growth (device counts, connection speed, newly-required features, increased software requirements) into consideration over the next 5-7 years. I actually started by pricing out a rack-mounted Supermicro-based solution where we would purchase parts only and then I would do the assembly myself. Based on just the cost of parts versus the cost of the Dell system, the Dell was cheaper--which surprised the heck out of me, I don't mind admitting.

[@zxljmvvmmf3024]

why you mad bro

[@birdpump]

im running opnsense with wireguard and openvpn tunneling on a dell poweredge r640 almost 40 users to a connected to the site, a small router wont be able to do that.

[@nadtz]

As someone who is currently upgrading my opnsense box from a dual core CPU because it handles routing fine but can't handle routing + firewall I'd have to disagree.