Hardware for Opnsense

[fiR3W4LL87]

Hi Guys

Im trying to finde some good hints about Hardware for my future setup.

I have now a Fortigate 60F doing all the Work in terms of Security, VLANS and DHCP. I had befor on my old Server a VM with Opnsense and was happy but my friend recommendet me to buy a fortigate. Problem is that if i want to look for some Help, he has no time and cant get support from forti because my problem are all related to consumer and not business so i thinking about Opnsense again.

What i would to get is, the full down and upload trought my ISP. With IPS,adguard and all the fancy apps incl. Dhcp and VLANS, geoblocking.

I think the big challange is the have an eye on the powerconsumption of the system and i need at minimum 4 ports! 1 Wan, 1 lan and 2 dmzs

Has someone a good hint? Or some experience about to share?

Regards

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The dedicated appliances sold by Deciso perform very well and have low power consumption.

https://shop.opnsense.com

[EdwinKM]

Those aliexpress Qotom boxes are also popular. Check also servethehome on youtube.

[0n3man]

Recommendations for hardware really depend on your throughput goal.  I've used a pe engines APU2 platform for years for home. It only good for under 100M.  I've also use one of the Qotom boxes https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B7JLWCML/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 when I upgraded to 1G.  I actually like the Odroid H3+ with the optional netboard, which gives you a total of 6 nics.  With out IPS the H3+ can handle the 1G speed.  If you enable IPS it passes about 600M of traffic.  The other items you mentioned aren't all that processing intensive.  I like the H3+ because in the space that it competes it is best when considering cost, performance and capbilities.  The H3+ is what I'm currently using.

[kss]

I am comfortably running Opnsense on an old mini-ITX Intel motherboard (DQ77KM) with a Core i5 and 8GB RAM. The motherboard has two Intel 1GB NICs. I got these on ebay and the entire system was under USD 200 including the case and power supply. However, it consumes close to 60W, compared to the newer generation hardware.

[fiR3W4LL87]

Hi Zusammen

Ich habe mir tatsächlich einen Qotom geholt mit einem i5-8260 16GB Ram und 256GB SSD geholt. War für mich preislich einen nobrainer. Bin ziemlich happy damit und arbeite mich durch die Einstellungen.

Nun überlege ich mir alles auf Proxmox basis einzurichten. Darauf Opnsense und Pihole. Die Leistung sollte ja ohne weiteres reichen.

[0n3man]

I'd go with opensource qemu-kvm instead of proxmox.  I wrote up the steps I took to get opnsense running on gemu-kvm here:  https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=31650.msg152895#msg152895.  It isn't that hard.  Doesn't give you the nice GUI like proxmox.  However, if you're only installing a couple of VMS that you plan to run all the time using something with stable packages is a better choice.