N150 / N355 good fits?

[OPNenthu]

I wonder, is it better to have fewer (2x) but higher frequency P-cores vs. 4x or 8x "normal" cores for OPNsense?

if zenarmor had decent multi-core processing, a N150 would maybe do 10g, a N305/N355 almost certainly.

i wish protectli had an N355 version

How do you feel about their i3/i5/i7 line (VP66xx)?  They are not fanless and of course cost more, but idle TDP is 12W (100W max) per the product sheets. Also dual channel, though not sure if that makes a big difference.

Would you still take the VP2440 over a VP6650 if price were the same?

[dirtyfreebooter]

How do you feel about their i3/i5/i7 line (VP66xx)?  They are not fanless and of course cost more, but idle TDP is 12W (100W max) per the product sheets. Also dual channel, though not sure if that makes a big difference.

Would you still take the VP2440 over a VP6650 if price were the same?

yea, i didn't want the fan. idle maybe similar, but zenarmor basically keeps 1 cpu at 3-5% on idle, so the cpu is never in that lowest idle state with zenarmor. i am sure the vp6xxx series is good too.

for me, zenarmor annoying AF. they keep removing features saying customers are abusing the free/home tiers, and their solution is to put previous features behind business fees, or not bring multi-core to home license. then the software upgrades, since moving to opnsense business its been better, but for a while zenarmor would break on every opnsense update. then the constant SSL certificate errors on the freebsd repository. like if you can't even get SSL certs correct, do i even trust your software, lol... anyway, long rant, but i am looking at just using adguard home or pihole and some firewall aliases to just replace zenarmor. its not the same, but it would be good enough. and then, the n150 would be overkill, even running wireguard at 2 Gbps (easily).