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pfSense Router Build

prestonrichmond said:
Its on the Supermicro site, as far as I know they only sell two versions of the D525, and two versions of the D510 Model numbers either X7SPA or the X7SPE, Difference between the two being one isnt exactly mini-ITX
Links to the Supermicor site with all there specs:

X7SPA-HF-D525
X7SPA-HF
X7SPE-HF-D525
X7SPE-HF

As far as ram goes, iv been told the Supermicros are very picky. but then again they are a server board, not ment for home users. But Iv read and stuck with crucial memory and it works pretty good. I have these, and there working good on my SPA-HF-D525. Though a tad overkill for pfSense, I bought it in-case in the future I want to move this server for different duties.

I have read some places that Kingston memory works good too on Supermicro boards. If you goto the supermicro pages theres a tested memory link, and micron is listed, and I believe they supply the chips for crucial. You can also goto the crucial site and the Supermicro boards are listed on there too.
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Kingston memory has worked well on my D510 board. Like you mention, SM has a link about which memory that has been tested. If anyone plans to use a SM, I would pick memory off of that list.. Anything outside that list is asking for trouble.
 
I have a X7SPE-HF-D525 and use a 4gb G.skill dimm and it works fine no problems.
 
came across this the other day, looks to be quite a good box for a router at a decent price... board by itself is 199

dual intel nic

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107088

also putting together 3 or 4 "super routers"

using the supermicro case yeoldestonecat is recommending, supermicro's 1155 board, a pentium G 2.6ghz DC (and cooler), 8GB ram (ddr3 so cheap!), cheap 250GB seagate 7200rpm laptop drive ( i use a 2.5" laptop drive so i can use this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998079 as this case has pci slot on the front, this thing is VERY slick) xenserver, pfsense and untangle running simultaneously
i've previously been using untangle exclusively, but i'm actually having some scalability issues with the hub-and-spoke only topology in it's implementation of openvpn, so i want to make the switch to pfsense, but losing all of the other neat features with untangle kind of sucks too, thus... the superrouter


EDIT: yea, after years of headaches i just always default to kingston memory in these types of builds, at most it's a few dollars more (sometimes it's the cheapest) and it's pretty much guaranteed to work
 
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Nifty little box. I've just never been able to get past the external power brick, it just makes me nervous. I've had WAY too many bricks of random varieties die on me. Can you get spares for those?
 
Nate7311 said:
Nifty little box. I've just never been able to get past the external power brick, it just makes me nervous. I've had WAY too many bricks of random varieties die on me. Can you get spares for those?
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yea, but having it external is very nice as well, less cooling issues, more modular...

i'm sure you can get spares, but they may be sort of difficult to find
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
I did the following hardware last September or so....Atom D510 on the mobo, 2 gigs of RAM.

Supermicro 1U case, $89.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152107
It's a cool case with the I/O ports in the front.

Supermicro Atom D510 board with dual Intel gigabit and IPMI remote module, $219.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182238
soon.
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Been trying to confirm if a PCIe card will fit in a similar setup to yours. Do you know if the following will work? My main concern is the 2x2.5 hard drive bay that might get in the way of the card.

 
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wonder when this thing is going to be built and some PICTURES will be posted :)
 
Kazei said:
Just finished building a pfSense box too. Needed something to replace an old WRT54GL and it works really well. Just need to add a wireless access point and I'm all set. Total cost was ~$300 CAN.

Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 Intel Atom
Corsair CMSO2GX3M1A1333C9 1X2GB DDR3-1333 CL9-9-9-24 204PIN SODIMM
MINI-BOX M350 Universal MINI-ITX
PICOPSU-80 with Power Kit


https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9284282/1/pfSense?h=a2a260

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I just got mine up and running again with the same specs and case as you, but i notice the box is VERY hot. how is the heat on yours? do you think it is something to worry about?
 
Kazei said:
Just finished building a pfSense box too. Needed something to replace an old WRT54GL and it works really well. Just need to add a wireless access point and I'm all set. Total cost was ~$300 CAN.
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where did you pick up the Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 Intel Atom board?
 
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