Turnkey hardware

[Tech By Andrew]

I'm looking at moving my clients from pfsense to OPNsense. In the past I have been using the Protectli boxes with the intel E3845 and 8GB ram 120GB Drive. Is this adequate to use for an average of 300 meg down/30 up. With some mobile VPN.

It would be running OPNsense, IDS and Sensei for sure. I'm just looking for the best turnkey hardware solution. I've been very happy with the Protectli E3845 boxes so if that has enough power I would just stick with them, otherwise I am happy to look at other other options or bump up to the i3 if I need to.

[thowe]

It depends. 

It depends on how many and how complex rules you have at firewall and IDS level. I would expect that the small Protectli has enough power to run your load. Maybe Sensei could be too much. Give it a try.

[Tech By Andrew]

It depends. 

It depends on how many and how complex rules you have at firewall and IDS level. I would expect that the small Protectli has enough power to run your load. Maybe Sensei could be too much. Give it a try.

Thank you, yes it does depend I should have put more detail in, I am going to be testing it. This would mainly be targeting small businesses of 5 or 6 users and maybe 20 to 25 IP devices. I also need to test if the free version of Sensei gives me much benefit over the built in IDS. (I don't have any experience with Sensei yet)