On 1/10/19 5:37 PM, Outback Dingo wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:06 AM John Harris johnmh@splentity.com wrote:
Sorry, one decision for a firewall on low cost hardware with features should definitely be OPNSense
I guess it depends the definition of "low cost hardware" and what the OP really wants to do. OPNSense, at a minimum, requires:
Single core x86-32 or x86-64 CPU 4GB mass storage 512MB RAM Adequate PCI slots to support the NICs required.
Recommended hardware is:
Multi-core x86-32 or x86-64 CPU 120GB mass storage 4GB RAM Adequate PCI slots to support the NICs required.
and they claim it can do 750Mbps+ throughput with the recommended hardware config. OPNSense offers more features than OpenWRT (it is a customized FreeBSD implementation after all). That being said, OpenWRT only requires a $150 wireless router for hardware and is stripped down to do just what a router/firewall/VPN is expected to do and not much else. If that's what the OP wants, then that's _my_ recommendation and it's at a lower cost than a minimum hardware OPNSense platform.
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