Subject: THE machine for lady jups !
Message: Dear Chris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhlqb4iGn4

I did the same (quick) experiment with a similiar device with pfsense on top of proxmox last summer and it was working fine. This was for a neighbor with the classic set of family devices, phones, tablets and a nas. I reverted to pfsense only in order to keep his setup more simple and focused on teaching him vpn, certificates and all the joy...

What seems interesting in this hardware :
- low cpu power 10w with
- direct dc connection
- possibility to have one m.2nvme ssd and one sata ssd
- small form factor
- passive cooling
- enough punch to virtualize
- possible to add a wifi or 3g or 4g module (not sure pfsense would like it)


1/ Would you be interested in a machine like that for lady jups ?

proxmox
- can centralize all your vm/lxd/docker needs
- can virtualize pfsense (that has good potential)
-- dns filtering with the pfblocker plugin
-- dns cache
-- multiwan (never practiced but seems to be able to handle packet loss and/or latency)
-- vpns (I practiced only openvpn and ipsec)
-- packet shaping

2/ Do ali-express ships to U.S. ? If not, any idea if it would it be better to ship from Hong Kong ?

3/ would you need (remote, I'm in HK) help to setup ? especially the pfsense side ?


J4125 vs E6005
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=197305,212327

celeron j4125
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003110339518.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.dae4495beySlK1&algo_pvid=57ce909c-e361-46c0-8c0e-f12569fe91f8&algo_exp_id=57ce909c-e361-46c0-8c0e-f12569fe91f8-0&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000025693323490%22%7D&pdp_pi=-1%3B1733.14%3B-1%3B-1%40salePrice%3BHKD%3Bsearch-mainSearch

celeron n6009
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004011402622.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.dae4495beySlK1&algo_pvid=57ce909c-e361-46c0-8c0e-f12569fe91f8&algo_exp_id=57ce909c-e361-46c0-8c0e-f12569fe91f8-2&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22sku_id%22%3A%2212000027733286266%22%7D&pdp_pi=-1%3B2168.19%3B-1%3B-1%40salePrice%3BHKD%3Bsearch-mainSearch