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okay through good times and bad times

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through sickness and in health something something we make videos every day and

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sometimes when our teleprompter mysteriously goes missing we make a

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different video than we were planning on doing today so while I was going to

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review the Rog Swift pg279 Q instead I

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am taking yet another shot yes my

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friends yet another shot at building my own pfSense router this time with a

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chassis that a isn't one you because that was way more of a nightmare than it

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was worth and B actually is the correct

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width for a server rack it is apparently a known design flaw with the oneu

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chassis that we used before that if you put the lid on it which we used to

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create like that cool ducting cooling system for the CPU heat sink it is well

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known that it then does not fit in a rack which would raise the question

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what is the point of a rack mount chassis that doesn't fit in a rack when

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you close the top of it so after all that after all the dead boards we're

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blowing it up we're starting again from scratch here we

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go the master case 5 from Cooler Master lets you truly make your midtower PC

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case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link

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in the video description to learn more the this computer is going to go

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together just like that there will be no problems no

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problems all right so let's do a rundown of the new hardware so for our chassis

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we went with an iar USA D200

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LS the reason I chose this is for a couple of reasons number one I think it

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looks super cool with like these blue

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things on the front number two we didn't need a ton of drive space because it's a

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router so we didn't need anything with like you know front hot swap rails or

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anything like that um and number three I

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wanted something that was able to mount our expansion cards rotated 90° so that

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we could use full height expansion cards if we wanted to even in a 2u chassis so

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just like last time we've gone with a redundant power supply this time it's a

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different size obviously to go with the chassis that we have so this is a 500

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watt redundant power supply meaning that either of these two power supply units

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could fail outright and we'd be able to slide it out keeping the system

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operating and put a new replacement unit in this is pretty important for any kind

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of mission critical machine something like a router where the entire company

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literally shuts down if it's not working for you know 10 minutes and I mounted it

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upside

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down a I do these things to myself

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Ed ah yeah

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good on the subject of reliability we opted for Server grade Hardware this

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time across the board so we've got a p9d

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e4l motherboard from isus the reason

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this one was chosen was we could have gone with an matx board quite easily but

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our chassis has room for an ATX this gives me the flex ability to do

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something else with the board in the future if I so desire and the main

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reason right there four Intel gigabit

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NYX built in that'll give us a total with our two expansion cards so one of

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which is an i340 T4 so that'll give us a

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total of 8 gabit RJ45 ports then we

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actually have another card here so this is an i350 based SFP card so this is

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also a gigabit four port card but this one we're going to be using for the link

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from our modem essentially like our fiber modem so that'll give us a total

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of 12 ports using those two expansion slots at the back for our CPU we've gone

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with a low power Zeon it's a 1265

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lv3 and then for our boot drive we are going to be using an old SSD that I had

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lying around it beats a thumb drive but it won't matter anyway because I'm

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looking at running the embedded version of pfSense so we're not going to have to

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worry about a bunch of wres on the disc either way for RAM we're going to go

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grab some Kingston ECC RAM off the shelf and throw that

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in all right so the machine is built it

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was a tight fit with that PCI Express

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ribbon cable and that bottom network card that is it is still unclear to me

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if all of this Biz in here is is definitely going to work but one way or

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the other it is time to find out if this system

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posts so come along with me for a little journey

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okay power's on that's a good sign

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hey oh the monitor's not on that won't help what is this monitor doing get in

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there come on

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baby yes okay so the machine is built the

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machine is posted we're in the BIOS it's working now seems like a good time to

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address the comment that I'm sure many of you have already left under the video

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yes I know this is an Overkill machine I

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get it it's way overpowered for a router the reality of it is the manufacturer

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sent us this stuff the only piece that I provided was actually the low power Zeon

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CPU so do I have a badass router the

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answer is yes do you watch Linus Tech tips for like just good enough the

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answer is maybe but either way we're going overkill on this one so now we're

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going to get into how to actually install pfSense on your machine so you

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head over to the pfSense website you download whichever is the appropriate

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version for what you're doing so in this case we really could go with either the

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embedded or the full install um with the full install being more heavy-handed on

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our SSD especially if we enable things like logging for example then once you

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go through the pretty straightforward setup process that we're going to show

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kind of quick on screen here you are landed at a prompt that shows you the IP

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through which your router can now be accessed on your local network from this

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point on you pretty much never have a reason to look at the display output

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from your router box ever again because everything will be managed through the

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web UI all right so now that we've mostly

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got things sorted out we've decided we're just going to go for gold we're

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going to rip our Cisco router out we're going to put our pfSense router right

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back in and we're going to finish the configuration wizard with that all

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happening garbage can router does it smell vaguely of burning

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in here to you H does it smell like burning yeah everything seems to be

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working all

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right I'm just throwing this up on the top for now and then once we've

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determined that it functions then we'll put it then we'll

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put it into uh this spot in the rack so

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uh let's get some power run up here and then let's see if everyone is ready to

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go so there will be a network outage oh

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for hopefully about 15 to 20 minutes

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okay okay this always makes me so nervous when inter server that is

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everything it'll probably take me 20 minutes to walk to my desk with this

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coffee don't put that camera on me it's making me

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nervous here we go so I have informed

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everyone the Network's going down

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Let's uh let's boot up the PX tense box

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and hope for the

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best Y what the heck how did I end up

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with two keyboards plugged in okay it's working now I

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think sometimes it's hard to be

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me okay do you want to set up V lens right now no enter aan interface or a

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for auto detection here it goes no link up detected

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let's try one of the other ones yeah but there's no link

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up okay well I'm calling the

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tech okay I think it's yeah it's number

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two oh it's definitely not in my server

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room so I have an mrv in my server room

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would it help if I just sent you a picture of what I'm looking

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at I'm at the main menu um

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so here it is guys our Overkill router

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is finally working there were a number

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of issues it seems mostly related to our

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uh fiber media that were causing ports

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to not show that the link was up or show that it was when it wasn't when actually

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the setup process for this is as simple as is you sit there at the console you

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type in the interface that corresponds

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to your internet connection the interface that corresponds to the switch

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that goes out to the rest of your internal Network and you can tell everything else okay full auto I'm ready

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to rock you put in an IP address which it just lists on the console you get

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into here there's a wizard should be pretty much good to go we had some

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issues don't worry too much about that basically the reason we're running

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pfSense is we want a nice high performance router we want something

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that has a Goole so you can actually get in here and you can configure all kinds of different

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firewall stuff uh all kinds of different port forwarding uh you can actually set

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up some really cool features like what I was using back at our old office when I

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was trying to figure out who the heck was using up all the freaking bandwidth

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cap uh so you can actually get cool little plugins that'll do things like

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monitor um which IP addresses are sucking up all the bandwidth just a a a

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great little piece of Kit and uh I'm sorry it's taken us so long to to get it

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set up but that's in a nutshell why we went with pfSense for this box finally

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finally finally managing to actually install

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it so we've actually got a giveaway to announce for you guys no it's not a

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router it's actually a little bit cooler this is the Zotac Magnus en

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970 and while it unfortunately doesn't have a gtx970 graphics card in it it is

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still pretty darn impressive with a core i5 5200u dual core hyperthreaded

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processor two slots for 2 and 1/2 in tries one m.2 slot as well as up to 16

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gigs of DDR3 L memory support now the graphics card that it is using is a GTX

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960 and all of this is packed into a super tight little device so guys sign

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up for the giveaway at the link in the video description and the full details

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can be found there but the usual things apply so one entry per person it is a

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worldwide giveaway with no restrictions and thanks to Zotac for sponsoring this

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sweet giveaway make sure to let them know you're happy in the comments

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