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I have a very similar unit from Protectli running an OpenWrt x86 build. It's the best router/firewall I can think of for home/small business. It replaced an en
by Nextgrid 4y ago
I have a very similar unit from Protectli running an OpenWrt x86 build. It's the best router/firewall I can think of for home/small business.
It replaced an enterprise-grade Mikrotik router, which while no doubt being more performant (it has hardware offload for routing/firewall), was a pain to configure and certain scenarios are almost impossible to implement (WAN failover where one of the WAN interfaces is a PPPoE link) on it where as in OpenWrt they work out of the box.
The lack of hardware offloading for firewall/routing doesn't seem to be an issue in practice for gigabit links.
- blangk 4y agoI've got a reliable scripted implementation for the WAN failover including a pppoe WAN
- Handytinge 4y agoCan you link to a gist please? I'd love to see it.
- sliken 4y agoEspecially when using Mikrotik or Ubiquiti routers where you have to be very careful to not select an option that disabled hardware offload. Last I checked enabling bandwidth logging, various firewall rules, or QoS disabled the hardware offload. Generally CPU is more about PPS than bandwidth, any of this 4000 or 6000 series intel chips seem plenty for a few Gbit of home network loads that are generally gaming (FPS or minecraft), streaming (youtube, amazon, netflix), browser traffic, or plex. Sure if you ran a game server with 10Gbit + and 100s or 1000s of clients it might die, but that's not a normal home traffic load.