yeah its actually not as involved as you'd think. What I did was :
- used a cheap small atx case I had lying around,
- get a cheap gigabyte motherboard that supports ddr3 and core2duo
- popped in my old e6600 core2duo processor
- hooked up the power supply ( i used a spare corsair 750w which is overkill)
- installed 4 gigs of ddr3 ram
- used an old ssd 40gig so the system would load up fast in case it has to restart.
- popped in two intel network adapter cards
Note that this created a beast of a router, I use probably 4% of the available memory at max load and 0% processor haha... Oh and to keep temps under control i just installed 2 fans at low speed and a passive heat sink.
Pretty much build a small cheap computer with no graphics card, or sound card
then hook up an external sata CD drive, burn the pfsense image boot off the cd drive, it'll walk you thru the steps, just hook up your WAN and LAN network cables hit the corresponding button. It'll auto configure.. then it'll do some other stuff install to your harddrive just customize.. then hit enter for everything.. it'll do the configuration stuff again
then it should be up and running
from there
you can just hook a computer up to it and login to your new beast router which should have a web interface similar to the consumer grade stuff and configure it like you would a normal router.
Willystyle, I used 2 network adapters one for LAN one for WAN, but those were Intel ones, maybe theres something else out there I dunno haha.. as for being compatible with a wireless bridge at my place I have another wireless router and this router is just a simple wired one, but I'm sure it should support a wireless bridge. I only did a really quick setup so didn't get much into the more complex things.