HUNSN RS52 and opnsense

[hharry]

Hello All,

Currently running opnsense in an esxi 6.7 vm with only 2 x vCPU, limited to 1.6GHz, 4Gbyte RAM, 16Gbyte VHDD, and has been very stable an reliable. I'm only using basic opnsense F/W, and frr with OSPF, openvpn to NordVPN.  and not looking at running much else....

Wanting to move opnsense to dedicated hardware, and have been looking at the HUNSN RS52 Micro Firewall Appliance, Mini PC, OPNsense, VPN, Router PC,

Intel N100 CPU ( 4 x cores, has AES-NI instruction set for openvpn etc )

4 x 2.5GbE Intel I226-V NIC.


Anybody running with this H/W platform ? if yes what has your experience been like ?

[Seimus]

If you would search the forum, you would find that a lot of people are running on N5105 or N100.

The experience is just fine.
But you maybe will have to do some DIY, like disassemble, full clean and proper re-pasting.
Also you need to take in consideration that not all Memory and NVME configurations work with these mini N100 Boxes.

Regards,
S.

[hharry]

hmm, now that i dig around a bit, it's a bit concerning it seems some using free BSD and Alder Lake CPU, needed a microcode update to be stable, particularly with UFS...


https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261169

[meyergru]

1. You should use ZFS anyway.
2. It is unclear what firmware the HUNSN comes with at this time.
3. No matter what, OpnSense comes with a microcode plugin that fixes this.

[Seimus]

Yop, as its above posted, use ZFS not UFS. OPNsense recommendations is to use ZFS anyway, ZFS gives you several benefits including system wide Snapshots from the GUI which is a godsend.

You can run the OPNsense on N100 without problem without the microcode updates usually (but depends what firmware the MOBO has by default). But its recommended to do it anyway. I run microcode packages as well on my Linux servers. It will not hurt, and can bring several benefits. Also there is an official package for this in the OPNsense repository, so its very easy just to install it and forget about it.

I run OPNsense on N100 over a year without problems, before I did ran it on N5105 without any problems.

Regards,
S.

[hharry]

thanks guys, input and advise is much welcome, feeling much better about the N100 now....seems like a great solution, low power CPU....