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OPNSense: What Hardware Do You(...) 09/12/25(Fri)05:35:25 No.106563337

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OPNSense: What Hardware Do You Run? Anonymous 09/12/25(Fri)05:35:25 No.106563337 Archived

What is some off the shelf hardware to run OPNSense for a simple multi vlan setup just to run a couple isolated vlan networks?

Anonymous
09/12/25(Fri)06:07:05 No.106563502

Anonymous 09/12/25(Fri)06:07:05 No.106563502

>>106563337
Inter-VLAN traffic takes some CPU so home routers might not give much throughput. I had a Mi Router 4A and it gave 200-250 megabits going from VLAN to VLAN. Now I have a mini pc with an i3-10110U and it handles everything very well. You don't need a router with many ports, you can get a cheap smart switch like mine, TL-SG1016DE.

Anonymous
09/12/25(Fri)06:35:06 No.106563696

Anonymous 09/12/25(Fri)06:35:06 No.106563696

I'm using a repurposed VeloCloud Edge 620 that I snagged off of eBay for just under $40. The specs, in short: Atom C3558 quad-core, 8GB RAM, 128GB M.2 SATA SSD, 6 x 1G copper ports, 2 x 10G SFP+ ports.

There's a whole thread on ServeTheHome about them; this post lays out the procedure for using them with another OS pretty concisely:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/dell-vep-vmware-edge-velo-cloud-sd-wan-veracloud-vep1400-vep1400-x-firewall-units.39392/post-419085

You might also want to post this question to >>>/g/hsg/ once there's one back on the catalog.