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  1. Maverick009

    Ienron switches any good for managed switch?

    Not really looking for manual type support. More of quality or problems.
  2. Maverick009

    Ienron switches any good for managed switch?

    So I saw this in a thread at another site that lead me to the Amazon page for it. I have an Ienron 4 port 2.5G + 10G SFP+ 2 Port Switch with a VLAN on/off toggle. It seems to work well and I have 1 10G port on my Intel X540-T2 card going to the switches 1 10G SFP+ port with the other 10G SFP+...
  3. Maverick009

    Can I repurpose an outdated gaming machine to be a home networking firewall with Linux and pfSense

    If you do not mind getting your hands a little dirty, a basic setup of Pfsense will be fine and you can learn more as you use it towards a daily driver. Just be prepared a little for tech troubleshooting with trial and error. As for hardware you can go a couple different routes. 1st option -...
  4. Maverick009

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Bringing it back to a gaming discussion. I went a little crazy over the holidays and added a lot of games to my ever-growing library, with some games I still have not gotten around to yet, but the deals were too great to pass up (Like $2000 worth of games for under $400 too good). One of the...
  5. Maverick009

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Ouch! Seems you are not a fan of Asus or Corsair. For me, Corsair and Asus have been pretty good to me, and Asus and I go way back to the Athlon/Pentium 2/3 slot days. Back then I was really getting into building and primarily used Asus and Tyan Motherboards as the 2 main brands before nearly...
  6. Maverick009

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    For me Corsair has been the opposite. K70 Rapidfire keyboard - owned for a few years. Was reliable and still used with my server rack. I ended up moving to the Logitech G915 mechanical wireless RGB keyboard. Corsair Wireless Dark Core Pro RGB SE - Still works well, but upgraded to a Logitech...
  7. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Good to know. I figured home network, a mix of cheap L2 and powerful routing with custom hardware makes sense. For me, I still have an L3 Managed Switch, but I know currently, I am not fully utilizing it. With the cleanup of the rack and rerouting cabling, I may start putting more load on the...
  8. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Yeah I saw that they were on BSD 14. I also saw some reports about driver issues with the latest Opnsense builds. Mix that with my network DNS issues and Lancache problems, and it was creating more headaches. Ran a test with Pfsense and even after some reboots and a cleanup of the server/network...
  9. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Thanks. Yes I am doing better.
  10. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Been dealing with some health issues, otherwise would of provided an update to this sooner. So all the hardware from the upgrades is the same. The big change was switching out Opnsense for Pfsense. After using it for a little over a year now, I was slowly running into a few issues. Most of them...
  11. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Sorry been a moment since I looked and was able to respond due to some health issues and network issues. There is actually no real slow down in L2 switch vs L3 switch. The big difference is in the hardware abilities based on the switch. L2 does great with MAC Address assigning while L3 does it...
  12. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    No real confusion over the two. Just knowing the difference between them and hardware level support you can build into a router at the cost of expense to reach the same or very close to similar levels. Now at lower cost of hardware or if there is a lot of resources being used on the firewall...
  13. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Not exactly as it also depends on the hardware backbone too. A dedicated L3 switch helps alleviate some of the stress on the system as you expand without the need to upgrade the server/firewall/router hardware alone. It also supports some server functionality such as DHCP. However all ports are...
  14. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    I am not sure of Pfsense, as it has been a moment since I played with it, but Opnsense, has been moving more and more to multi-core/multi-tasking design phase. You can also actually enable UDP firewall request to be handled by multiple cores now with a simple setting. That is just another...
  15. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Nah, not worth it. Limited expandability. For the system I have, it is in a 2U Rack server case in my rack. The 5700G can be tuned for low wattage and with default eco-mode it could go to 45W. With further tuning and locking clock speeds, it is even possible to get it down to about 15W. As for...
  16. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    Using Pfsense or Opnsense, in some cases just a switch is needed and does not need to be necessarily an L3 switch, as a lot of the functionality part of an L3 is baked into Pfsense and Opnsense, but if the price is right, L3 is the way to go even if not using all features out of the gate. As for...
  17. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    It is a TP-Link T1600G-28TS L3 Managed Gigabit Switch. Works good and does the job well, but I will at some point had a couple upgraded switches including a 10G multigig switch. Currently contempt with a working setup.
  18. Maverick009

    Upgraded Opnsense Firewall Router hardware

    So I have been talking about it for a while now and finally did a fully upgrade revamp of my Opnsense Firewall. Major upgrade to the firewall that will last for a very long time. I have the Intel NICs also setup in Bridge mode as it made complete sense with my home network and the CPU is more...
  19. Maverick009

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Getting away from the actual games, I just added a new upgrade in the form of 2 new Samsung Neo G8 32" 4K HDR2000 monitors to arrive to me this month to upgrade my dual 32" Dell S3220DGF 1440P Software HDR400 screens. I just built my first ship last night. Only bad is I had just over 113000...
  20. Maverick009

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    I am actually enjoying Starfield. More likely due to venturing on all the side missions and not sticking to the main story line completely. The graphics I agree could be better, but they are not the worse I have seen in a game, and I feel there is still optimizations they can make overall to the...
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