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I've been looking at this as well. I'm currently running my gigabit fiber connection through a GPON-ethernet media converter and from there over Cat 6 to a ubiquiti Edgerouter-X. It does okay with hardware offloading enabled for things like ipsec and NAT, but it's taxing the CPU and I'd like to move to something with a little more headroom.

Got any recommendations for something that can route beyond gigabit, when NATing and DPIing and other things?

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> Got any recommendations for something that can route beyond gigabit, when NATing and DPIing and other things?

goto recommendation for the last decade is a used small formfactor enterprise desktop or a laptop. the former allows for a pcie nic and more performance while the latter usually requires a usb-eth but has a builtin keyboard and screen for debugging.

just go for something x86, avoid the ultra low-end cpu's and your usually good for soho stuff.

You should checkout the new R862 mini pcs. You can get 3X 2.5 NIC and 2 SFP port with 10G support. The homenetworkguy did a great review on it. But overall, 10G works but only with nothing turned on. With IPS/IDS and proper MTU, you can get about 3 Gbps. But all this for sub $400 in a computer about the size of your hand is insane to me.

I think you mean R86S, I wasn’t able to find something relevant by R862. They’re pretty interesting. I am sort of looking to replace my R210ii and this fits the bill but downgrading cpu performance (for a great deal of efficiency gain) kind of feels bad.

Aha yeah, I’m on mobile so it was a typo. I currently run a fanless mini pc with N100 and 4X 2.5G which has been great. If you don’t need SFP and can live with LAGG + 2.5G, you can probably get pretty similar real world speeds compared to a 10G SFP line.

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