I have just bought and assembled a super cheap SGD$276 brand new AMD Athlon 3000G desktop PC to run pfsense firewall+Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

Subject: I have just bought and assembled a super cheap SGD$276 brand new AMD Athlon 3000G desktop PC to run pfsense firewall+Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

Good morning from Singapore,

4th April 2020 Saturday morning

I have just bought and assembled a super cheap SGD$276 brand new AMD Athlon 3000G desktop PC to run pfsense firewall community edition version 2.4.5 and Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

I have bought all of the following computer parts from a computer shop at the fifth floor of Sim Lim Square in Singapore at 8:00 PM SGT on 3rd Apr 2020 Friday. After buying all of the following computer parts, I hurried home by Grab (SGD$8) and assembled it into a brand new desktop computer.

[01] AMD Athlon 3000G Processor with Radeon Vega 3 Graphics, 2 cores and 4 threads, 3.5 GHz, SGD$72 ===> SUPER CHEAP PROCESSOR!!!

[02] Asus Prime A320M-K Socket AM4 micro-ATX Motherboard rev 1.02, SGD$98 ===> SUPER CHEAP MOTHERBOARD!!!

[03] Crucial 4 GB DDR4-2666 288-Pin UDIMM memory, SGD$35

[04] Integrated Graphics Device (IGD) Radeon Vega 3 Graphics, SGD$0

[05] Toshiba 1 Terabytes (TB) 3.5 inch SATAN internal harddisk (existing part, re-use), SGD$0

***WAN ZONE will be defined on the Gigabit network port on the motherboard.***

[06] tp-link Gigabit PCI Express x1 Network Adapter TG-3468 (LAN ZONE), SGD$16

[07] tp-link Gigabit PCI Express x1 Network Adapter TG-3468 (DMZ ZONE) (existing part, re-use), SGD$0

[08] Headway 929 Full ATX Casing with 500 Watts Switching Power Supply Unit (PSU), SGD$55

[09] Philips 220S4L LCD Monitor with DVI-D and VGA ports (existing part, re-use), SGD$0

[10] Novatek Microelectronics Corp. Keyboard (Labtec Ultra Flat Keyboard) (USB) (existing part, re-use), SGD$0

[11] Elecom Wireless Optical Mouse USB (existing part, re-use), SGD$0

[12] pfSense firewall Community Edition version 2.4.5 (FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE), SGD$0

[13] Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) (FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE), SGD$0

Grand Total: SGD$276

ISN'T THIS BRAND NEW DESKTOP COMPUTER SUPER CHEAP? I hope I didn't make a wrong or terrible choice!

The AMD Athlon 3000G processor supports Intel AES New Instructions for encryption (AES-NI).

If you are interested in learning how to DIY and assemble your own brand new desktop computer, please follow my Blogger and Wordpress blogs. Links to my redundant blogs can be found inside my email signature. I will be uploading all the 28 photos taken with my Huawei Mate 10 Android smartphone to my redundant blogs to show how I have DIYed and assembled my brand new AMD Athlon 3000G desktop computer. Stay tuned for the upcoming photos in the future!

If you are interested in learning how to install and configure pfsense firewall community edition version 2.4.5 and Snort Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), please follow my Blogger and Wordpress blogs. Links to my redundant blogs can be found inside my email signature. I will be posting detailed steps/instructions and screenshots in my redundant blogs in the future. Stay tuned for more!





REFERENCES
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[1] https://lists.snort.org/pipermail/snort-users/2020-April/073437.html

[2] https://marc.info/?l=snort-users&m=158596673721367&w=2

[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/3/1158

[4] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2004.0/04138.html

[5] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=158596682621398&w=2

[6] http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-chat/2020-April/029111.html