Honey, I Shrunk the Firewall...AGAIN! - pfSense on a ZimaBoard!

Since we built an ultra-small pfSense firewall for Jon's homelab, Rich has been looking for even smaller and more powerful single-board computers (also known as an SBC) to install pfSense on. Today we bring to you the smallest pfSense firewall we've built yet, the #Zimaboard! This crazy little single-board-PC runs an Intel Celeron N3450 quad-core CPU, has 8-Gigs of DDR4 RAM, 32-Gigs of onboard storage, 2x 1-Gig NICS, 2x 6-Gig SATA ports, and even a 4x PCIe 2.0 slot (WOW!) But does all of this power and connectivity mean it'll make an excellent #pfSense firewall? Let's find out!

Find out more about all 3 different models of Zimaboards here: https://www.zimaboard.com/

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ZimaBoard 832: https://amzn.to/3Ypd6YK (This is the model we used!)

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*TIMESTAMPS!*
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Technical specs of the ZimaBoard 832
1:30 How much does the ZimaBoard cost?
1:52 A word about CasaOS, the Linux OS included on the ZimaBoard
2:08 A word about x86 SBCs, and our experience with installing pfSense on the ZimaBoard
2:54 Let's talk about Realtek NICs
3:25 How to disable TCP checksum offloading in pfSense for Realtek NICs
3:57 How we'll test the performance of pfSense on the ZimaBoard 832
4:17 Testing pfSense on the ZimaBoard with iperf3 and the results
4:51 Testing pfSense on the ZimaBoard with OpenSpeedTest and the results
5:31 Let's test the ZimaBoard's thermals!
6:16 Final thoughts on using the ZimaBoard for pfSense, and which model you should buy for running pfSense
6:54 Tell us what services or features you'd like tested on the ZimaBoard!

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