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Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists (social.graves.cl)
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Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This. N100 box with Opnsense will serve you well for a decade+ until you want to upgrade to 10gbps.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I have an N100 box for my router and it's great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

    At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They're never great, but I can definitely tell I'm getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don't expect the greatest performance.

    A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I've been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.

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