I have been interested about the prospect of building my own router with PFSense.
I wonder would you have any recommendation for a hardware to use in this? I am seeing some cheap used NUC boxes for sale such as this
Would a NUC like this work?
I will need a wifi hotspot. I wonder is there anything special on configuring this as a wifi hotspot or perhaps need I configure my existing router as a Wifi bridge essentially. Should be not so difficult maybe.
Amazon.com has several little pfsense boxes. they all seem to refer to AES-NI instructions, i don’t see AES-NI in your listing (however i can’t read kanji). I’ve been meaning to look into this as well as my TPLink Archer C7 running DD-WRT can be flakey at times
Maybe look towards ODROID-H2+
Good point! I found this to have it
Oh I see, sound interesting
J4115 is a newer chipset than j3160… but not much of a difference they’re both very slow… and very power efficient. They both have aes-ni.
WiFi on FreeBSD (pfsense) is probably not the best idea, probably best you bridge if you can.
What WiFi router do you have?
Oh great to know, thanks.
I have a generic NEC router, pretty good though
I was thinking along the lines of turning it into a capable, multi ssid vlan supporting accesspoint by using openwrt on it. If you don’t already have hardware openwrt can support, a Ubiquiti unifi “ac lite” or better yet “hd nano” is a solid no-nonsense wifi access point…(they don’t come with a configuration ui running on them, but the “controller” software for them is easy to run on pfsense… or in the cloud on a vm, or on a raspberry pi, or on a laptop once in a while)
There’s also the netgate store where you can get a premade box ready to go.
https://store.netgate.com/pfSense/SG-1100.aspx
No AES-NI there since it’s running on an ARM chip, but for a simple setup one of those little boxes can be pretty nifty.
Nanopi r1 + openwrt
WiFi looks fishy on the nanopi (all non ath10k wifi looks fishy to me), but at least the allwinner H3 it’s using has a cryptoengine core, that’s supposed to do 90MB/s of 1KB aes-128-cbc. How well would that translate into OpenVPN, I wonder.
I have been interested about the prospect of building my own router with PFSense.
I wonder would you have any recommendation for a hardware to use in this? I am seeing some cheap used NUC boxes for sale such as this
Checkout the Seeed Studio Odyssey with eMMC: Just need the board + Power supply + case and you’re done:
On the product page they describe using it for pfSense: https://files.seeedstudio.com/wiki/ODYSSEY-X86J4105864/img/X86-04-n.png
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