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chassis that doesn't fit in a rack when you close the top of it so after all that after all the dead boards we're blowing it up we're starting again from scratch here we go the master case 5 from Cooler Master lets you truly make your midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more the this computer is going to go together just like that there will be no problems no problems all right so let's do a rundown of the new hardware so for our chassis we went with an iar USA D200 LS the reason I chose this is for a couple of reasons number one I think it looks super cool with like these blue things on the front number two we didn't need a ton of drive space because it's a router so we didn't need anything with like you know front hot swap rails or anything like that um and number three I wanted something that was able to mount our expansion cards rotated 90° so that we could use full height expansion cards if we wanted to even in a 2u chassis so just like last time we've gone with a redundant power supply this time it's a different size obviously to go with the chassis that we have so this is a 500 watt redundant power supply meaning that either of these two power supply units could fail outright and we'd be able to slide it out keeping the system operating and put a new replacement unit in this is pretty important for any kind of mission critical machine something like a router where the entire company literally shuts down if it's not working for you know 10 minutes and I mounted it upside down a I do these things to myself Ed ah yeah good on the subject of reliability we opted for Server grade Hardware this time across the board so we've got a p9d e4l motherboard from isus the reason this one was chosen was we could have gone with an matx board quite easily but our chassis has room for an ATX this gives me the flex ability to do something else with the board in the future if I so desire and the main reason right there four Intel gigabit NYX built in that'll give us a total with our two expansion cards so one of which is an i340 T4 so that'll give us a total of 8 gabit RJ45 ports then we actually have another card here so this is an i350 based SFP card so this is also a gigabit four port card but this one we're going to be using for the link from our modem essentially like our fiber modem so that'll give us a total of 12 ports using those two expansion slots at the back for our CPU we've gone with a low power Zeon it's a 1265 lv3 and then for our boot drive we are going to be using an old SSD that I had lying around it beats a thumb drive but it won't matter anyway because I'm looking at running the embedded version of pfSense so we're not going to have to worry about a bunch of wres on the disc either way for RAM we're going to go grab some Kingston ECC RAM off the shelf and throw that in all right so the machine is built it was a tight fit with that PCI Express ribbon cable and that bottom network card that is it is still unclear to me if all of this Biz in here is is definitely going to work but one way or the other it is time to find out if this system posts so come along with me for a little journey okay power's on that's a good sign hey oh the monitor's not on that won't help what is this monitor doing get in there come on baby yes okay so the machine is built the machine is posted we're in the BIOS it's working now seems like a good time to address the comment that I'm sure many of you have already left under the video yes I know this is an Overkill machine I get it it's way overpowered for a router the reality of it is the manufacturer sent us this stuff the only piece that I provided was actually the low power Zeon CPU so do I have a badass router the answer is yes do you watch Linus Tech tips for like just good enough the answer is maybe but either way we're going overkill on this one so now we're going to get into how to actually install pfSense on your machine so you head over to the pfSense website you download whichever is the appropriate version for what you're doing so in this case we really could go with either the embedded or the full install um with the full install being more heavy-handed on our SSD especially if we enable things like logging for example then once you go through the pretty straightforward setup process that we're going to show kind of quick on screen here you are landed at a prompt that shows you the IP through which your router can now be accessed on your local network from this point on you pretty much never have a reason to look at the display output from your router box ever again because everything will be managed through the web UI all right so now that we've mostly got things sorted out we've decided we're just going to go for gold we're going to rip our Cisco router out we're going to put our pfSense router right back in and we're going to finish the configuration wizard with that all happening garbage can router does it smell vaguely of burning in here to you H does it smell like burning yeah everything seems to be working all right I'm just throwing this up on the top for now and then once we've determined that it functions then we'll put it then we'll put it into uh this spot in the rack so uh let's get some power run up here and then let's see if everyone is ready to go so there will be a network outage oh for hopefully about 15 to 20 minutes okay okay this always makes me so nervous when inter server that is everything it'll probably take me 20 minutes to walk to my desk with this coffee don't put that camera on me it's making me nervous here we go so I have informed everyone the Network's going down Let's uh let's boot up the PX tense box and hope for the best Y what the heck how did I end up with two keyboards plugged in okay it's working now I think sometimes it's hard to be me okay do you want to set up V lens right now no enter aan interface or a for auto detection here it goes no link up detected let's try one of the other ones yeah but there's no link up okay well I'm calling the tech okay I think it's yeah it's number two oh it's definitely not in my server room so I have an mrv in my server room would it help if I just sent you a picture of what I'm looking at I'm at the main menu um so here it is guys our Overkill router is finally working there were a number of issues it seems mostly related to our uh fiber media that were causing ports to not show that the link was up or show that it was when it wasn't when actually the setup process for this is as simple as is you sit there at the console you type in the interface that corresponds to your internet connection the interface that corresponds to the switch that goes out to the rest of your internal Network and you can tell everything else okay full auto I'm ready to rock you put in an IP address which it just lists on the console you get into here there's a wizard should be pretty much good to go we had some issues don't worry too much about that basically the reason we're running pfSense is we want a nice high performance router we want something that has a Goole so you can actually get in here and you can configure all kinds of different firewall stuff uh all kinds of different port forwarding uh you can actually set up some really cool features like what I was using back at our old office when I was trying to figure out who the heck was using up all the freaking bandwidth cap uh so you can actually get cool little plugins that'll do things like monitor um which IP addresses are sucking up all the bandwidth just a a a great little piece of Kit and uh I'm sorry it's taken us so long to to get it set up but that's in a nutshell why we went with pfSense for this box finally finally finally managing to actually install it so we've actually got a giveaway to announce for you guys no it's not a router it's actually a little bit cooler this is the Zotac Magnus en 970 and while it unfortunately doesn't have a gtx970 graphics card in it it is still pretty darn impressive with a core i5 5200u dual core hyperthreaded processor two slots for 2 and 1/2 in tries one m.2 slot as well as up to 16 gigs of DDR3 L memory support now the graphics card that it is using is a GTX 960 and all of this is packed into a super tight little device so guys sign up for the giveaway at the link in the video description and the full details can be found there but the usual things apply so one entry per person it is a worldwide giveaway with no restrictions and thanks to Zotac for sponsoring this sweet giveaway make sure to let them know you're happy in the comments below below below I need to drink of water we're good so thanks for watching guys if you like this video click that like button if you disliked it though click dislike we can take it we can take the hate leave a comment if you have feelings that are more complicated than that if you did like the video get 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