No real questions here, just wanted to share a limited review by one of the few folk that has spent time with this new Lanner hardware based solution by PFSense. We needed a Firewall and VPN solution upgrade for our corporate headquarters and I wanted something more flexible and cheaper than the standard Cisco fare, but that would provide adequate throughput for the VPN. Much research led me to choose PFSense as the solution, but I didn't feel like rolling my own hardware for a 1u desired rack mount. Sometimes, such efforts can be costly disasters.
Anyway, I purchased a FW-7551 from PFSense directly even though I could find no solid reviews of that model specifically. It is their middle of the road solution and the cheapest that permits the addition of an SSD so we could put SNORT on it as well.
The hardware is a rather simple and...