DEC3920 / DEC3940 / DEC3960 CPU

[pfry]

Sorry, I meant your estimate of Wireguard and ZenArmor performance from their Passmark scores vs. the Deciso marketing materials. How do they look to you? (Another comparison.)

[dirtyfreebooter]

my latest testbed i had protectli vp2440 with N150, so with zenarmor (also noting this is variable based on how many things are in the policy, etc), with wireguard, testing with iperf3, i could get 2.2 Gbps upload, 1.7 Gbps download with 4-8 parallel streams. watching top, every once in a while you can see one of the CPUs go down to 0% idle, which is zenarmor on one core and wireguard over all 4 cores, hit a state where one cpu is totally consumed.

if zenarmor would ever bring multi-core to home edition, n150, would be a great 2.5g option, with zenarmor and wireguard (for home users where the # of connections is relatively low).

so seems like anything around 10,000+ multicore score could do 4 Gbps wireguard (without zenarmor).

but again, just post the specs and cpu model. i wasn't really asking for ppl's opinions on my setup or their opinions on real world performance, etc.  all of the numbers and testing are very install/situation dependent, so just knowing the model and benchmark scores, you can start there and do some napkin math to help you decide if its something you want to try or not. not saying passmark == exact real world performance.

why opnsense/deciso is so secretive about this is ridiculous, frankly.

[pfry]

I would prefer a formal (preferably third-party) review, too. (Although I'm not in the market for hardware - I prefer to assemble my own.) It may simply not be a priority for Deciso, and they may have the right of it - marketing is not one of my skills.