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IMO, no. I don’t use pfsense on a daily basis (MikroTik FTW), but netgate will use CE as a testing ground. They’ll keep putting out updates; but advanced functionality will be paywalled.

‘Sense’ uses interface to base their rules around. You could use the vlan interface or the wan interface for this.

Running suricata and HAProxy will be the cause of your slowness / wierdness.

Unlikely.

Don’t use more than two SFP transcievers in that CRS305, it’ll overheat otherwise.

What region of the world?

Once a year for firmware updates. But my unraid box usually needs reboots once a month to stay stable.

I5 4690 idle, with all drives spinning (no read/write) at 60-70watts constant. Maybe a little less. I have a i7 4770s and it’s around 75watts idle with 8 drives, half spun down most of the time. Which is roughly 54 kWH.