I was looking at something like this for my router needs, and I'm currently running OPNSense (but I'd be OK with switching to Linux). I've read many comments about these being wonky, on HN and other forums. What's your experience with them, especially under high load?
I run a fanless CWWK one with OPNSense and it’s been rock solid. I have i-226 and I got pretty lucky because it got added to support a couple weeks before I tried it (I probably should have checked but I naively assumed it would worked since the i-225 works). I’ve been running for almost 8 months? And I haven’t touched it besides running an update for OPNsense and NGFW. I use an omada AP and I get around 800 Mbps internet on hardwire and 4-500 on wifi 6. I have like one device for 6E so I kept that feature off to save some electricity. I also only have one 2.5G Ethernet device so I never got to test the iperf for it. But with about 30ish devices on the network, I use at most 30% cpu and 12GB of RAM but most of it is the ZFS cache. I think OPNsense with NGFW is about 6GB)
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I was looking at something like this for my router needs, and I'm currently running OPNSense (but I'd be OK with switching to Linux). I've read many comments about these being wonky, on HN and other forums. What's your experience with them, especially under high load?
I run a fanless CWWK one with OPNSense and it’s been rock solid. I have i-226 and I got pretty lucky because it got added to support a couple weeks before I tried it (I probably should have checked but I naively assumed it would worked since the i-225 works). I’ve been running for almost 8 months? And I haven’t touched it besides running an update for OPNsense and NGFW. I use an omada AP and I get around 800 Mbps internet on hardwire and 4-500 on wifi 6. I have like one device for 6E so I kept that feature off to save some electricity. I also only have one 2.5G Ethernet device so I never got to test the iperf for it. But with about 30ish devices on the network, I use at most 30% cpu and 12GB of RAM but most of it is the ZFS cache. I think OPNsense with NGFW is about 6GB)