HP T620 Plus Firewall Overview and NIC Installation
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- The HP T620 Plus has become a favorite firewall and VPN appliance due to its low cost and power consumption. Adding pfSense or OPNsense an a dual or quad port NIC to the boxes adds an amazing amount of versatility. Learn more www.servethehome.com/hp-t620-...
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Great video, I just bought one. Hopefully at the end of the week I'll have a chance to check it out.
What happened ?
For the poster that asked about blocking and/or filtering there are packages available within thr pfSense community edition including pfBlockNG and Suricata. They'll consume CPU and memory but this particular unit can handle it.
My current PFSense box is an E5500 Pentium Dual Core lga775 from 15 years ago and it never uses more than 50% CPU. My network is only 1G. If it was 10G, i'd need something like this box or better.
Man I way overspent on my setup. Good food for thought-next time. Thanks!
I've used them a few times, but with ClearOS.
These have gotten more expensive instead of cheaper in 2020...
Considerably more so...
@@nickrafuse984 It is a matter of supply & demand. Think that the market noticed that it can be very easy converted to a pfSense firewall PC, so the demand is driving the price for this older machines. Here in Europe they sell at this moment for around €300,-
PresidenteHollanda yup, I understand how the market works. Used system prices are inflated across the board right now
@@nickrafuse984 ikr over $150! I can barely afford half that :(
@@PresidenteHollanda that's the unfortunate thing about the market. Anything that can be used as a router gets overpriced. From used pcs to sbcs to routers themselves!. A media mini pc with the same specs as a router costs far less than a router with the same cpu and ram.
Thanks for link!
I hope the Fujitsu Siemens D2745-A11 GS 1 is also a good choice identical to the I340-T4. The i350-AM4 is 3x as expensive..unfortunately.
What would be the next gen version of this? Does it go up everyyear in number Like TX20?
Is there going to be a T730 video?
Looks good. Waiting on full tutorial/demo on installing everything software wise. Get it to work. Then maybe some benchmarks/throughput -- see if saturating all 4/5 ports slows it down. What's the CPU usage on it, and so on. Then I'll buy it.
Overall pfSense and OPNsense installations are how you would do with any other system of this class. Our forums have a thread fixing funky BIOS issues that used models can have. New these work out of the box as a normal machine would.
We talk about performance on the main site. It can NAT 1gbps but OpenVPN is limited by single core performance.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo what kind of funky bios issues?
Here's a good video i followed setting my box up. th-cam.com/video/lUzSsX4T4WQ/w-d-xo.html (networkChuck)
Where is the T730 video?
Would like to see this as well!
Does it do full gigabit routing??
I've got a HP T730 and I'm getting frustratingly slow inter-vlan traffic (ie ~20MBps). Is that typical of these machines?
Those cheap intel quad GbE NICS... are those genuine ones? or those very clever fakes? Either way, have you tested to see if those fake ones perform just as well or not?
Hi Colin, these are actually from a server vendor. We were one of (if not the) first sites to address fake NICs back in 2015 www.servethehome.com/investigating-fake-intel-i350-network-adapters/ It is certainly a valid question when shopping for used NICs.
ive conisdered getting something like this so i wouldnt have to keep taking my roku to my aunts house when i stay there but due to my previous issues with amd its held me back
The APU in this while not a performance powerhouse, it's pretty capable and very stable, and uses very little power.
I have a HP t620 plus, I run windows 10 64 bit home on it, 8GB ram, GT 1030 (really helps out with videos, especially TH-cam (the intergrated HD 8400 just isn't enough), and due to the GT 1030 it'll easily do 4k 60 videos. I also installed a 1TB m.2 SATA SSD.
And funny enough it'll game as well, it'll run fortnite, and also run elite dangerous horizons (runs pretty damn good as well), and a slew of older games such as fallout new vegas and older pretty good as well.
These are only going to increase in price, you might also look at the HP t730 (it replaces the HP T620 plus), but with a far more powerful CPU (around double the performance).
Do you have a guide on How to block ads on the router for home networks.
checkout the pihole if you dont end up going the pfsense route...cheap and very effective.
Can it route with PFsense at 1gig i.e. max out the quad nic card ?
Yes, it can. The PCIe 2 x4 bus in the unit can handle around 2,000 MB/s, and a quad port nic can only push around 800 MB/s MAX and it's easy enough for the quad core AMD CPU to push it as long as you aren't doing anything too fancy. It wouldn't be able to be a transparent proxy/inspection of the payloads at those speeds. There's not enough CPU power for that.
what would be the approximate throughput for pfsense on this machine? thanks!
It can route gigabit.
Anyone know if this can do utilize a full gigabit when used as a pfsense box. No packet inspection, just routing and NAT.
100% easy.
Can you add wifi to it ?
Which INTEL NIC do you recommend thats compatible to use in pfsense?
Generally I look for something i350 based if I can get it. If not i210 for 1GbE.
@@ServeTheHomeVideo unfortunate that nearly a year after the launch of i225 there isn't an i350 counterpart in the 2.5gbe and 5gbe space. Asian countries like singapore, s.korea and japan are increasingly adopting 2.5-10gbps internet. Best to go for 10gbe NICs to futureproof the router esp considering wifi 6e and mm 5G are going to be challenging wired 1gbps speeds in a year or two.
Can this handle symmetrical gigabit openvpn at full throttle?
It can handle gigabit routing but not sure what it can do over Openvpn.
can this auto power on when connected to power??
Yes, you configure it in the BIOS. It's documented on page 38 of the Troubleshooting guide: h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04034585
It's in the "Computer Setup-Advanced" Power-On Options. You would set it to "Power on" so it powers on when connected to power.
HP T60 Plus used min. 400 Euros in Germany :(
180 on ebay
Is it still worth to buy one HP T620 Plus for Pfsense in 2020?
In many cases, it still is if you can get it for a good price ~$100 USD. It has a lower power footprint than the HP T730. It has no problems running with a quad port card like the one mentioned in the video.
That being said, if you are looking for something that can use a dual port 25 Gbit or 40 Gbit adapter like the Mellanox ConnectX-2 or ConnectX-3 which can be had fairly cheap (they also support 10 Gbit SFP+), you will want to go with an HP T730's with its PCIe 3 x8 bus.
If don't mind using 11-20 Watts of power vs 6-7 W and want something a bit newer, with twice the CPU capacity, then the HP T730 is a better choice, if you can get it for a good price ~100 USD.
@@danielgaudet6114 Thank you so much Daniel. I'll see if I can find a T730 for a good price. Cheers
@@danielgaudet6114 It's pretty difficult to get a T730 for a $100, not saying it's impossible, but $150+ is more likely. The T620 plus can be had for around $100, even those are not plentiful at that price.
@@zericnotify8784 I agree that it's not always possible, but if you keep an eye on eBay, it's certainly doable. In the month of April, about 50-60 of them have been sold on eBay for $109 or less from this seller (they are currently out of stock again): www.ebay.com/itm/202974708741?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true
Not sure if they will have more or not, but the seller has posted a similar add 3 times over the month of April all with different available quantities. I bought 3 of them from the same seller in March for $100 each.
@@zericnotify8784 where did you find for $100 all of these are $150 plus now :(
Add 4gb and a network card, and done
Tx20 vs omada ?
can we upgrade the SSD? I just have 16Gb in there.. please answer
We could upgrade ours
Adam Vehong it’s a standard SATA, M.2 form factor. It will not accept an NVMe drive.
Now where did this calm and collected presenter go. Was he fired and the hyped up on coffee one, we currently have, hired instead?