N100 for PPPoE 1Gb?

[Jabes]

Looking at buying a new hardware and moving to Opnsense (I am currently running Untangle).
It looks like an N100 is the right price/performance at the moment - but I need to get 1Gb PPPoE line performance (this is how my internet circle is delivered).

All the new hardware (have been looking at CWWK/HUNSN from ali or amazon) seems to come with i226 which seems to still have some issues? Would I be ok with this hardware?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

A Deciso DEC650 and successors will deliver 1 Gbit/s with PPPoE. That's all I have actually measured, sorry, no idea about the N100.

[meyergru]

Since even the previous generations of N5105 and J4125 suffice in routing 1 GBit/s, the N100 should be able to do that as well. Zenarmor or VPN is another story, though.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Since even the previous generations of N5105 and J4125 suffice in routing 1 GBit/s, the N100 should be able to do that as well.

Routing =/= PPPoE  ;)

[meyergru]

I implied with PPPoE, as I use all of these devices with PPPoE.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

I implied with PPPoE, as I use all of these devices with PPPoE.

Good to know, thanks!

[planetf1]

Noticed any additional latency with pppoe on opnsense on this kind of hardware due to PPPoE (either bare metal or virtualized) when compared with a typical ISP router (or even a microtik or similar) ?

[meyergru]

I have 4ms ping time with a N6005 using an external ONT, so no.

[Jabes]

Since even the previous generations of N5105 and J4125 suffice in routing 1 GBit/s, the N100 should be able to do that as well. Zenarmor or VPN is another story, though.

Thank you for this first hand data -- Interested in Zenarmor, less concerned about VPN processing. Is this far off from being able to do 1Gb with PPPoE with these? Or where would I need to go hardware wise?

[CJ]

Looking at buying a new hardware and moving to Opnsense (I am currently running Untangle).
It looks like an N100 is the right price/performance at the moment - but I need to get 1Gb PPPoE line performance (this is how my internet circle is delivered).

All the new hardware (have been looking at CWWK/HUNSN from ali or amazon) seems to come with i226 which seems to still have some issues? Would I be ok with this hardware?

I can't speak to PPPoE as I don't use it, but i225/i226 is hit or miss.  I've posted a thread to try and isolate the variable since some people have zero problems and others have a lot.  I'm currently using i225 with no issues.

[meyergru]

Since even the previous generations of N5105 and J4125 suffice in routing 1 GBit/s, the N100 should be able to do that as well. Zenarmor or VPN is another story, though.

Thank you for this first hand data -- Interested in Zenarmor, less concerned about VPN processing. Is this far off from being able to do 1Gb with PPPoE with these? Or where would I need to go hardware wise?

I do not use zenarmor, so I cannot really tell other than in order to inspect encrypted traffic, it has to be decrypted and encrypted again, so I assume CPU overhead comparable to encryption over a VPN.

Maybe you should ask Zenarmor folks on what CPU they recommend for your requirements.