I don't work in IT so virtualizing my router was really my first adventure into Type I hypervisors and such. In terms of xcp-ng - yeah I admit its not one of the more popular hypervisors with probably esxi and proxmox have the largest shares. I did bork my installation with some setting once (don't recall what I did), but the ability to restore to last saved snapshot really came in useful for this one.

It's just for home use/home lab so its really flexible. I ended up with total 32Gb of RAM which I think is max the board on the Protectli devices can handle. My real issues at the beginning was bad RAM modules (twice!!) - so be sure to test your RAM (memtest86) with the long extended tests prior to installation. This is a community subreddit so lets try and keep the discourse polite. This subreddit is primarily for the community to help each other out, if you have something you want the maintainers of the project to see we recommend posting in the appropriate category on our Netgate forum. If you are looking to sell or buy used hardware, please try /r/hardwareswap. If you are looking for help with basic networking concepts, please try /r/homelab or for more advanced, /r/networking.ĭo not post items for sale in this subreddit. Use a search engine like Google to search across the domain: We have a great community that helps support each other, but we also provide 24x7 commercial support.īefore asking for help please do the following:

You can install the software yourself on your own hardware. You can buy official pfSense appliances directly from Netgate or a Netgate Partner. The pfSense project is a free, open source tailored version of FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface.

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