A few more Qotom Devices

[HC]

Hey There,

I'm a new guy from Germany here. My previous experience with FWs were with IP(Cop/Fire), but now I want to go the Next steps. My requirements are about similar to racielrod in Home Gigabit Setup - Best... but I want to use IPS and the new Sensai Addon. I have read that these two points are very hardwarehungry and so I have searched the whole day für the right Devices. My results are new Qotom Hardware in Aliexpress with up to 16GB RAM and new CPUs.

Does anyone have any experience with these Devices? (sorry I had searched with Euros and not in USD  )

• Qotom Q550G6 (1) (16GB, Gen Core i5-6200U Skylake Dual Core, 6 (Intel) NICs, ca. 15W) Costs: ca. 400€
• Qotom Q550G6 (2) (16GB, Gen Core i5-6200U Skylake Dual Core, 6 (Intel) NICs, ca. 15W) Costs: ca. 390€
• Qotom Q500G6 (16GB, Intel Celeron 3865U Dual Core, 6 (Intel) NICs) Costs: ca. 286€
• Qotom Q570G6 (16GB, Intel Core i7-6500U Dual Core, 6 (Intel) NICs) Costs: ca. 459€

Is one of this hardware enough to use OPNSense with a 100Mbit WAN, IPS, Sensai and perhaps ICAP with AV (internal or external)? I launch DNS in a Raspi Config with PI-Hole, so this is negligible in the O-Sense.

Best regards
HC

P.s. If the Qotom are not enough, or have a bad price-performance ratio, wich Device do you recommend?

[qinohe]

Hi HC, oh IPCop, I remember compiling the thing, it was busy for over a week, but than you had something...
I'm glad m0n0wall came along btw. it was kinda cumbersome to configure the whole thing correctly 

The machines you listed there will probably all do the job. It depends a little where you would use the device, at home I would say choose the Celeron or i3 (not listed), in you company the i5 or i7 would (probably) be a better choice.

My board has a D410 atom on it and has no problem reaching 100Mbit on my home setup, to give an idea.

Greetings, mark

[HC]

Hey Mark,

oh let us delight in old times  But I never compiled this thing, in my times it gave an image  But yes... this is long time ago.

To my Background. Yes it is for home but I am a sysadmin and try out new Software to recommend it otherwise. I also have (and plan to expand my Homelab / Small Home Office). In Future there is more Traffic and also other traffic then Netflix & Co. And usually I Prefer reliable Hardware e.g. my Synology for NAS.

Much greetings
HC

[qinohe]

Yeah, they had them too, pre compiled images but I wanted something like 2.0.* on Debian, there were no pre compiled images you had to compile yourself..

Back to 2018 hehe  , really, I have no idea about the stability of these Qotom boxes, but, I generally read good things about them. I'm more of a ugh* Supermicro ugh* guy myself never had problems with it but that says nothing of course.

If it is for testing also, I would say go for the i5 but that would be overkill if it's sole purpose would be the 'homewall', that's my vision on it anyway.

Greetings, mark

[zwck]

I employ two of the qotom q355g4 and they handle 1gbit finev (one as a firewall one as a rancherOS host).   I even had contacted the qotom support to get a recent bios which turned out to no problem whats so ever.

[Misant]

Got a q355g4 running here also.
Only have it running for 1 week now.
No problems yet, plenty of power. Using it with fibre pppoe 500/500.

[oneplane]

I can report the Qotom hardware works very well. We use them a lot in smaller setups where there is no contract-forced requirement for a fully enterprise supported chain of hardware and software; we have had about 3 DOA's per 50 units so far, which is pretty good. Have not had a failure in the field.