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Home Appliance for Gigabit fibre connection 1000 mbps

Candid Aeby

Hello

I'm using an old HP Desktop with 2 NIC's and an Intel Quadcore Quad Core2 Q6600 @ 2.4GHz. This device is to slow for my home as I have a symmetrical Gigabit fibre connection.

Unfortunately I bought a Shuttle XPC slim XH110v with i7-6700, 8 GB ram and 120 GB m2.sata which is not compatible with Sophos home UTM9. With this PC and pfSense I get around 900 Mbps up and down.
http://www.shuttle.eu/de/produkte/slim/xh110v/

Now I’m asking for advice for a silent or low noise PC with lots of power. I would prefer a LGA1151 socket and I’m willing to spend some serious buck on it (500 to 700 US).

So what chipset / mainboard is supported by Sophos and give me real throughput? Goal is something between 500 and 900 Mbps. It would be helpful if the HW is available in Europe.



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  • You have a good cpu.  Keep that and use a different motherboard with Intel nics.  Snort is limited to about 300Mbps per thread.  So you would need at least 4 simultaneous users on an 8 core 3.0ghz or faster cpu to have snort be able to stuff that pipe.  UTM by default only fires up half of your available threads into snort instances so you should get 4 instances of snort on the i7.  Get 4 people on there at the same time and see if you get close as you did with pfsense.

    Owner:  Emmanuel Technology Consulting

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    Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

    PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng, 

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  • You have a good cpu.  Keep that and use a different motherboard with Intel nics.  Snort is limited to about 300Mbps per thread.  So you would need at least 4 simultaneous users on an 8 core 3.0ghz or faster cpu to have snort be able to stuff that pipe.  UTM by default only fires up half of your available threads into snort instances so you should get 4 instances of snort on the i7.  Get 4 people on there at the same time and see if you get close as you did with pfsense.

    Owner:  Emmanuel Technology Consulting

    http://etc-md.com

    Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner

    PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng, 

    Other addons to follow

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  • in reply to William Warren

    I have bought a Asus server motherboard, P10S-I mini-itx 1151 socket and dual intel nics that are supported I think. I haven't assembled it yet. I will be using the mb with e3-1225 v5 and 8gb of ram.

    In theory it is UTM compatible.

     

    Update. 27 Dec 16

    Changed the CPU model to the correct installed version.

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  • in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:

    I have bought a Asus server motherboard, P10S-I mini-itx 1151 socket and dual intel nics that are supported I think. I haven't assembled it yet.

    Thank you. Please update when you installed it. 

  • in reply to William Warren

    William Warren said:

    Get 4 people on there at the same time and see if you get close as you did with pfsense. 

    The current Quadcore machine is too week and the new board is not supported. So I'm looking for a good mainboard with LGA1151 socket

  • in reply to Candid Aeby

    I ordered parts which include a Gigabyte H170 board that has two Intel NICs. I'll have it next week and let you know if I can get it to work. If it fails, I'll be trying to install ESXi rather than just getting a different motherboard. I also have a home connection of 1Gbps, though I rarely use much of the pipe. I got a Core i3 for the higher clock speed, and if it fails I will try a Core i7.

    , have you tested your machine yet? Any updates?

  • in reply to WrlsFanatic

    I finally got to build the machine yesterday and it is quick sits around 30w. Installed without any issues, restored the backup from the VM machine and it went online.

    I did have issues trying to create a usb install stick but they were not motherboard issues, the install kept failing unable to find the install.tar file. The file was on the usb stick, so ended up creating a dvd.

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  • in reply to rfcat_vk

    So you got the DVD burned, system installed, and will be testing? Or you got the system together but haven't burned the DVD yet?

  • in reply to WrlsFanatic

    It is working beautifully and has been since I posted that it uses 30w.

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