I am thinking of building a router for OPNsense. I am familiar with building computers but I am not familiar with networking. What kind of hardware would I need to hit 1, 2.5 (my most likely target), 5 or 10 gigabit speeds on my local network?

I was thinking of buying a small form factor PC and sticking an Intel I226 Network Card or something similiar in it.

So, what kind of processor would I need?

  • zer0@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    No expert here, but you should check on Protectli, they have good stuff, small form factor(mostly), fanless, serial com which is convenient in some situation.
    I have one (intel not amd) that is currently not in use for personal reason but when it was running, I found the hardware very reliable, silent and not hot.
    Prices are not as good as some cheap hardware you can find on Aliexpress or Amazon but somehow I trust more company like Protectli than any noname because at least with Protectli devices it is possible to install coreboot to override the default bios. (BTW when people check the bios on their cheap hardware then things are getting weird, which version it is …, doesn’t sound like something I would trust to manage a network, just saying).