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General Discussion / Nice to have... a lightweight OPNsense?
« on: October 25, 2023, 12:00:17 pm »
I'm running the latest OPNsense on my APU4 with various optimisation (RSS and hardware offloading).
All in all I'm quite satisfied considering my current ISP speed (500 Mbit) and the 12 VLANs (I don't route traffic between them though).
I'm aware that the APU4 is not a super powerful but, with other Firewall OS (ie OpenWRT) it does route to gigabit between VLANs with zero effort and pretty much null CPU usage.
I've noticed that most of the time, processing hogging my APU4 with OPNsense are Python processes; I'm wondering if the graphical interface (and everything related to it) is actually stealing the most of the cpu power to route packets...
Hence my 'nice to have': what about having an OPNsense 'light' with minimal UI (and functionality) but pretty much focussed to packet routing, firewalling, VLANs, QoS etc? A sort of minimal distro...
what's your thoughts?
Thanks
F
All in all I'm quite satisfied considering my current ISP speed (500 Mbit) and the 12 VLANs (I don't route traffic between them though).
I'm aware that the APU4 is not a super powerful but, with other Firewall OS (ie OpenWRT) it does route to gigabit between VLANs with zero effort and pretty much null CPU usage.
I've noticed that most of the time, processing hogging my APU4 with OPNsense are Python processes; I'm wondering if the graphical interface (and everything related to it) is actually stealing the most of the cpu power to route packets...
Hence my 'nice to have': what about having an OPNsense 'light' with minimal UI (and functionality) but pretty much focussed to packet routing, firewalling, VLANs, QoS etc? A sort of minimal distro...
what's your thoughts?
Thanks
F