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Title: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: Mardor on October 17, 2015, 05:52:58 pm

Hello,

I am searching for hardware with 3 interfaces in order have one wan incoming, one dmz and one LAN interface.
Overall I have only around 5 devices, so there is not much traffic between the different devices (max 100 MBit).

Any non expensive recommendation for a home network ?

BR Marcus

Title: Re: Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: jstrebel on October 17, 2015, 06:28:05 pm

I recommend pcengines APU.  http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
Great value, very reliable. Jakob

Title: Re: Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: franco on October 20, 2015, 06:03:52 pm

Yes, for small money APU is the best.

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: neo243 on October 21, 2015, 10:16:42 am

APU is ok but the APU has problems with the Bandwidth between the interfaces it's Limited in OpenBSD to ~60Mbyte/s

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: weust on October 21, 2015, 11:28:45 am

I have a Soekris net6501-30 I don't use anymore.
It can handle 200 Mbps. Comes with a SSD too.

Only issue might be the 512MByte RAM.

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: franco on October 23, 2015, 08:59:14 am

I don't think OpenBSD restrictions apply to FreeBSD these days, especially with regard to networking/SMP.

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: neo243 on October 27, 2015, 04:45:32 pm

hi franco i used it 1 Network 1 Server when i moved files to my Server it was caped at 60 mbyte/s i even asked pcengines and they confirmed it that OpenBSD/FreeBSD is caped to 60mbyte/s.

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Cc: support1207@pcengines.ch
Betreff: Re: APU 1c4d Only 60 Mbytes/s between Interfaces
 
Hello,
under Linux the routing performance is almost 1000MBit/s. With FreeBSD/pfSense it reaches up to 480MBit/s, see attached iperf results.
Which OS are you using? What is the CPU load when doing so? Are any filters, encryptions, etc. active?
Best regards,
xx xx

and yes tested with opnsense :<

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: franco on October 28, 2015, 10:47:17 pm

What is your setup? Routing, VPN, Limiters? Raw speed or real network? The numbers look a bit too low (the email says 480 MB which looks better than 60 MB).

Could you get a number of how pfSense performs in your setup specifically?

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: neo243 on October 29, 2015, 08:13:44 am

480Mbit are /8 60 Mbyte/s. I tested this with 15.1.12 and pfsense 2.1 or something both the same.
Now i use my Server in my Normal Network so i don't have this struggle anymore. But i can test it this evening again if you want :).

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: franco on November 01, 2015, 12:06:11 am

No need, I'm pretty sure this won't change until FreeBSD 11. But I'm curious as what Jos or Ad have to say about firewall throughput performance on the Deciso Netboards, I believe that was higher?!

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Hardware recommendation with 3 interfaces
Post by: jmvelez on November 09, 2015, 06:02:33 pm

For $215 dollars you can buy a 1U Intel 6 port Gigabit Ethernet with Atom dual core 1.8 with CF disk.  Well built and ready to run.  They have other models with faster CPU etc.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/BAS-High-Performance-Core-Router-Intel-D525-1-8Ghz-dual-core-support-ROS-Mikrotik-PFSense-Panabit/2053826581.html