Dell PowerEdge R210 PfSense box inbound

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First time poster, I’ve spent more time on this site in the last 6 months that I can count, wife does not appreciate my evening browsing of the site.

So I blew up my Dell R610 pfSense build, running under VMware (don’t ask ugh)

Found a little Dell PowerEdge R210 with i3-530, 8GB RAM, 160gb drive (ebay Link here)for $110 Canadian, plus $20 shipping, offered $100 he took it. It’s inbound now, could be a few days, could be a week with the current environment we are dealing with. Ship times are all over the place

Comes with either Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 dual NIC’s or Intel® Gigabit ET, either way great supported NIC’s for pfSense.

No iDRAC which I am a little disappointed about, just hope the fan’s are not loud, that will suck. I’ll either swap the fans and/or pickup cheap iDRAC board, then just spin down the fans via IPMI.

Post some pics when it arrives as I work through the setup.

Again appreciate all the info the site provides, truly an inspirational site.

So much so that I based my new build of the many guides on the site.

Just quickly, parts ordered for the new lab gear, should all be here within a few weeks. I’ll throw up a new post with specs and the issues i’ve had putting this build together.

Anyway, touch base in the coming days I hope.

Thanks all,

Crazy out

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Looking forward to seeing this build!

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Welcome! It’s been a few days, how did the build turn out?

1st gen i5s aren’t the fastest for the money, but I’m unfamiliar with the Canadian market.

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Its been crazy trying to get the gear. With the covid-19 delays, I have yet to receive the parts. Been ordered for over two weeks now. I have tracking details, its moving just slowly between shipment centers.

Looks like it should all arrive this week at some point.

Update once completes build.

Thanks for the interest.

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It arrived, PfSense was giving me issues with copying old config. Could not get the locks to clear on the packages, no matter what I did or what google told me to do.

backed up with no packages this time, reinstalled and all seems good.

Weekend to test before I flip the old ISP modem to gateway mode.

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