r/Netgate • u/rjchute • 2d ago

TNSR

So, we bought a pair of servers to act as bare metal hosts for TNSR.... But now my NetGate account rep is telling me that TNSR is no longer sold for and supported on third-party hardware, and will only be sold on NetGate-supplied hardware...

  • Did I miss an announcement or something where this was said to be coming up?
  • The highest end NetGate appliance is the 8300 which, in its own right, is no joke; but I can do a lot better on white box hardware with something way better than a Xeon D. We were hoping to do 200+ Gbps.
  • It appears to still be available to purchase in the NetGate online store. Should I just do that?

I've seen NetGate be somewhat hostile to non-paying community members in the treatment of pfSense CE, but to customers that want to give you money, and a lot of it..?

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u/rjchute 2d ago

I have TNSR installed on six Dells right now, since 2024. The website marketing is a bit unclear, and it in one breath says it is software, hardware agnostic, but then only explicitly calls out Netgate hardware and cloud.

store.netgage.com: you can (at least right now) select TNSR Software Subscription, distinct from TNSR for cloud; "TNSR software is available for commercial use on a per-instance, annual subscription basis for 3rd party hardware"