Today we are going to take a look at a firewall appliance that we somewhat looked at a few weeks ago in our Inexpensive 4x 2.5GbE Fanless Router Fire

Fanless Intel J4125 4x i225 Virtualized Firewall Appliance Review

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2022-05-20 19:00:08

Today we are going to take a look at a firewall appliance that we somewhat looked at a few weeks ago in our Inexpensive 4x 2.5GbE Fanless Router Firewall Box Review. This unit is slightly different, but there are a lot of similarities, so we are going to also discuss virtualizing a pfSense/ OPNsense firewall and VPN appliance using Promxox VE.

As with the previous unit, we also have a video version that has some more commentary on the topic of virtualizing the firewall:

We are calling this one the Topton unit because that is the AliExpress brand for it. As you can see, this has a different chassis than the last one that we ordered. A fun note here is that we ordered a black version, but received a silverish metallic unit instead. Such are the adventures of buying this type of unit.

On the front, we see the two main features. There are four Ethernet ports labeled ETH0-ETH3. We confirmed that the MAC addresses are in order as well. There are also the power and HDD activity LEDs along with the DC 12V input.