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Hardware recommendations for running OpenSense as a Firewall? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hiya, looking the a firewall for my homelab, mostly to experiment but also for a added layer of security. There are just two of us in this household with a few laptops, phones and my servers, so nothing much. Therefore looking for something affordable and not "overkill".

Anyone got any recommendations for this? Also how do you run your opensense/pfsense instance?

Appreciate any tips!

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago

Opensense is based on BSD, which has a single threaded network stack. This means that low end CPUs can struggle to do >1gbit throughputs. Depending on your WAN this could be an issue.

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