[ale] Router Recommendations?

[dev null zero two]

pfsense. a quad core box can do all that and Snort on a gigabit connection
easily.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.

On Feb 10, 2017 12:05 PM, "Dustin Priest" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd go with the pfSense unit, personally, if for no other reason than I
> have experience with it and I know it will handle whatever I need it to do.
> No clue about the Edgerouter.
>
>
> On 2/10/2017 11:55 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got my fiber upgrade installed the other day and it looks like my poor
>> Mikrotik router just can't keep up.  When I connect my laptop directly
>> to my AT&T router speedtest.net gives me 500/950 (don't ask me why it's
>> only getting 500 down -- I plan to ask).  However, when I connect
>> through my Mikrotik I get limited to about 150-200 up/down.
>>
>> So I'm looking to replace the Mikrotik, but looking for suggestions.
>> The two options I'm considering at the moment are a Ubiquiti Edgerouter
>> Pro 8 [0] for $316, or pfSense installed on a 4x1Gb quad-core celeron[1]
>> with 8G RAM and 64G mSATA SSD for $310.
>>
>> My requirements:
>>
>> 1) sustained 1Gbps throughput, even via NAT, tunnels, or other routing
>> 2) GRE tunnel support (used to tunnel my class-C network)
>> 3) IPIP (protocol 41) tunnel support (used for HE's IPv6 tunnelbroker)
>> 4) Some VPN solution (IPsec/OpenVPN/PPTP, for when I travel)
>> 5) IPv4 policy based routing so I can route my class-C over the GRE
>>     tunnel and my RC1918 network via NAT (I'm pretty sure everything
>>     does this)
>> 6) IPv6 policy based routing so I can have some machines on the IPv6
>>     tunnel and other hosts on an ISP-supplied IPv6 network and ensure
>>     packets get routed out the correct method.  (my mikrotik doesn't
>>     support this!)
>> 7) Multiple IPs (both v4 and v6) on an interface (I run both my class-C
>>     and RFC1918 networks on the same LAN)
>>
>> What do you all think about these options?  Which would be more likely
>> to support my requirements?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> [0] https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Edgerouter-Router-
>> ERPro-8/dp/B00IA5J8M8/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=148674190
>> 9&sr=1-1&keywords=edgerouter+pro
>> [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MEGSMRZ?psc=1
>>
>
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