Similar to the SE50, the M90n is an IoT device made by Lenovo that has a rugged and versatile design to give the functionality of any type of environment when deployed. The license costs nothing and the feature set is unrestricted, making pfSense the perfect playground for security and network practitioners.Īlmost 2 years ago on the release of this article, we published a full review of the Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n-1 Nano IoT. But for our purposes, and why it’s so popular in homelab circles, we downloaded the latest free image to get rolling. PfSense is available as a productized offering that includes the software and support. This software is completely free to use and is really simple and easy to install. pfSense Overview and why the M90n-1įor those not entirely sure what pfSense is, it is a FreeBSD software-defined firewall solution that can be downloaded to a device and used on a network. Anything with dual-LAN though should od just fine for this, we just prefer these more rugged builds for a homelab or edge use case where environmental concerns may be more prevalent. While it shares the same case, they’re not configured with the second network port at the moment. Be advised that there’s also an AMD version that is currently sold by Lenovo, the M75n Nano IoT. While our last pfSense/Lenovo effort was overboard with a $3,000 system, these ThinkCentre units can be found for a f ew hundred dollars on eBay but have been discontinued by Lenovo in favor of the new SE30. In this article however, we wanted to show a more budget approach to putting pfSense on a homelab network, and in this case, we use the Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n-1 IoT. We thought that this would be a fun article as the SE50 is a ridiculously overpowered machine for a simple firewall like pfSense.
We released this article under the guidance of the comments that were made on our TikTok video about the ThinkEdge SE50, where a few people wanted us to put pfSense on it. We recently published an article, where we made the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE50 a pfSense router. In this article, however, we wanted to show a more budget approach to putting pfSense on a homelab network, and in this case, we use the Lenovo ThinkCentre M90n-1 IoT
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