Suggestions for low-power gigE firewall?

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Juergen Nickelsen <ni at w21.org> wrote:

> On 2014-06-18, at 08:37, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <olivier at cochard.me> wrote:
>
> > I confirm for a "home usage", the PC Engines APU can manage up to 154Kpps
> > (about 437Mbs/s of IMIX) in routing and 114Kpps (about 324Mb/s of IMIX)
> > with ipfw.
> > But... 154Kpps is far from the line-rate gigabit (1.48Mpps).
>
> Ubiquiti claims for their EdgeMAX routers to reach 1 Mpps with their
> entry-level model (EdgeRouter LITE) and 2 Mpps with their bigger model
> (EdgeRouter). They have maximum power requirements of 12 W and 40 W,
> respectively.
>
> http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax
>
> I own the other entry-level device, with more ports and PoE (EdgeRouter
> PEO), but don't yet have it in productive use (and would not able to attest
> pps performance at that level anyway).
>
> It seems to be quite capable a device, but the Web GUI doesn't cover the
> more interesting parts of its functions, and the documentation of the
> command-line UI, which is modeled strongly after Juniper's, seems to be
> less than fully complete, to say the least.
>

It sure does. And they have hardware forwarding. Thats how they get away
with so "low spec" cpus.

Best regards
Andreas


>
> Might still work out if you are willing to find your way through it. I am
> not yet fully convinced, but then I haven't found much time to do so by now.
>
> Regards, Juergen.
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