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What do you use for OpenBSD hardware? Is it power hungry? Is it performant? I had a great stint with OpenBSD on an older Pentium 4 Dell tower a few years bac
by elevation 1y ago
What do you use for OpenBSD hardware? Is it power hungry? Is it performant?
I had a great stint with OpenBSD on an older Pentium 4 Dell tower a few years back. For basic firewall rules, I had line-rate performance on my NICs. But for a home network I'd love to have something more energy efficient.
- ectospheno 1y agoMy current router at home is a dell vostro 3020 with a quad port intel nic. I usually get dell for the firmware updates they provide well after warranty.
- aaronax 1y agoSearch Amazon for "pfsense mini pc". (smile as you think about how this triggers that one pfsense guy!) Intel N100 or N150 processor, passive cooling, typically 5 1000GBASE-T or better ports, RAM and SSD included. Should be able to get one for ~$200.
- kube-system 1y agoThere are good options there, but those white label mini PCs can be hardware quality roulette. As much as I like opnsense, I choose Ubiquiti still when I need something cheap that I need to rely on.
- beala 1y agoI posted this in a sibling comment, but I can confirm Beelink's EQ14 [1] works well with OPNsense (FreeBSD based instead of OpenBSD). The dual NIC model uses the Intel KTI226-V chipset which has rock solid FreeBSD drivers. [1] https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150?variant=47996790636786 https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150?variant=...