Appendix B. Determining our Hardware Requirements
This appendix covers the following topics:
- Determining our deployment scenario
- Determining our throughput requirements
- Determining our interface requirements
- Choosing the standard or embedded image
- Choosing a form factor
Introduction
Whether our environment is a home network consisting of two computers or a corporate data center comprised of hundreds of machines, it’s essential to begin by determining exactly what we need from our firewall.
The versatility of pfSense presents us with a wide array of configuration options which, compared to other offerings, makes determining requirements a little more difficult and that much more important. The latest firewall product from Microsoft, for example, requires ...
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