On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:15:53 +0200 Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought an 85 year old house in the woods, and apparently I can get > 10 Gbit/s there. My good old APU4 firewall is barely keeping up with > 100 Mbit/s so I need to look for an alternative. > > My goal is an OpenBSD firewall/router that can do the packet > filtering and some VLAN and routing without having to worry about > adding too much. I've never dealt with anything faster than gigabit, > is there a "best" 10 gigabit chipset for OpenBSD that supports all > the hardware offloading features and whatever multi-process > functionality is already implemented? > > Something small and stand-alone would be nice, with 3-4 ports. > > // Anders I recently picked up this one (through aliexpress :)) to replace an older i7-7500U based one, which I had about https://www.toptonpc.com/product/12th-gen-firewall-mini-pc-2x10g-sfp-2xi226-v-2-5g-intel-i3-n305-n100-soft-router/ Installed openbsd, configure as a simple router, connect one sfp to the ISP, one to the home net through a set of ubiquiti switches (USW Pro 8 POE and US Pro Max 16 POE). Quite happy with it so far. Note that it does have a case fan, but it is running quite silently. And I splurged and went with the N305 version as I could get a good deal. But think that the N100 version will do just as well. Caveat with the N series of CPU, only 1 memory lane Caveat with the 82599 chipset, quite old ix0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82599" rev 0x01, msix, 8 queues,.. So this might not do so well performance wise, but for an home network I don't really care and I got nothing (yet) connected that can do more then 2.5GB anyway :D or anything that would really need that throughput at anyone time :P.
