I just recently got a new ISP and new internet speed 1200/600, my current firewall with opnsense can not handle the speed (AMD GX-412TC SOC), I have been looking for a new firewall (opnsense + 2.5 Ethernet) and found several with the Intel N100 CPU (2023).

I was wondering if this CPU is good enough to handle the Internet speed and if there is overhead?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The problem is Opnsense, as the BSD kernel used is doing single thread network routing. So the APU can saturate 1gbit with multiple connections/threads or if you switch to a firewall with a Linux kernel like OpenWRT.

    That said, a N100 probably does have enough single thread performance to do 1.2 Gbit. Not sure about the full 2.5gbit though.

    • JonnyJaap@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      That you very much for the answer.

      Can I ask why you are doing your firewall virtualized? I never understood why people do it, for me using bare metal has more advanced.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Honestly I’m a big fan of openWRT as it can give very good performance on cheap and used hardware.

    I’ve never used it on amd64 but it may be worth a shot.

    • JonnyJaap@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I used devices from gl iNet, the devices are good, but I find the UI of opnsense way better (compared to advance ui of openWRT) and updates are directly from opnsense.

      I still have them for smaller network tests but for some reason I never got close to it. Probably another reason is that my brother uses opnsense too, if we have any issues we can ask each other for help.