Zenarmor throughput with N5101 / i226v

[athurdent]

Hi, anyone running Zenarmor on something like this and can share throughput?

Micro Firewall Appliance, Intel N5105, HUNSN RJ03, 4 x Intel 2.5GbE I226-V LAN

It’s pretty cheap and I was wondering if I should get one as a portable router, to run OPNsense/Zenarmor either as Proxmox guest with passthrough NICs or directly.
Should run stable with latest Intel microcode it seems, and utilizing emulated netmap as far as my research goes.

Would be great if someone could share e.g. some local iperf3 tests, passing through such hardware.
Thanks!

[beki]

Hi athurdent,
Most probably you will get 1Gbps throughput. Because the single thread rating value (1517) of your CPU is approximately the same as the value(1499) of recommended CPU at https://www.zenarmor.com/docs/opnsense/introduction/hardware-requirements.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-5200U+%40+2.20GHz&id=2440
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N5105+%40+2.00GHz&id=4412 (Your CPU)

Beware that depending on the load on your CPU, you may get lower throughput.
Best

[athurdent]

Hi beki,
awesome, that should be more than enough for a travel router.
Thank you very much, highly appreciated!