Hi, I have a HA pair of Opnsense firewalls and a new internet connection accessed over PPPoE. I don't want to do PPPoE on the firewalls as they are HA pair and that's a pain to manage and can be fragile (or so I believe). Can anyone recommend a simple router that can do PPPoE on a WAN port and has at least 2 LAN side ports? It needs to be all gigabit and either not have NAT/Firewall or can be full turned off, it must also support IPv6
I've ended up ordering a "Microtik Hex S" router as I couldn't find any "Microtik Hex" for sale. Looks like it'll do the job. I'll post back once I've tested it in case anyone is in the same boat as me.
I'm curious if it can handle full-duplex Gigabit connections. Based on the technical details it should be very close.
hEX (S): 1,972.2 Mbps for large packets / 1,817.4 Mbps for medium packets / 532.0 Mbps for small packets
To be safe you could also use the bigger model hAP ax² and turn off the WiFi.
hAP ax²: 2630.4 Mbps for large packets / 2422.8 Mbps for medium packets / 743.2 Mbps for small packets
Thanks for the metrics. The 1Gbp/s symmetrical was to future-proof me as my current connection is only 900 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up.
I'm very happy with the Mikrotik HEX S PPPoE router so far as it works with my HA firewalls and supports IPv6. The speed tests look good but it's interesting that with small packets it may struggle. I'll do more testing on my side.