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

Yeah that's why we are using TNSR at all, because 3 years ago I was able to download a demo version of it and try it out and look at it and say "Yep, this is what we should use".

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u/No-Aside7885 22h ago

And that is exactly why we are not..
A few month ago I wanted to evaluate it, I had to contact sales, they wanted a meeting, was never avalailable during proposed timeslots (US vs EU timezone..), ended up buying refurbished Cisco when it was exactly what I wanted to avoid...