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I use OBSD exclusively on my gateway devices. Currently using it at home on an HP730 with a quad-port GB Intel NIC. Total cost ~$200 (used)

Keep you eyes open for sales. /r/homelabsales/ has great deals on these SFF devices sometimes.

I've read that the PCEngines struggles to keep up with network traffic in excess of 100Mb/s.

Although this update may have addressed that. That router guide is ok. but the official pages are better. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html

Hit me up directly if you have any questions. o2kewl[at]gmail[dot]com




My apu handles 300Mb/s with a dozen firewall rules without issues.

I haven't tested it on a 1Gb/s but @c17r said it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045963

I have an older alix one, and I think it worked with 100Mb/s, but struggled after that.

Now, I bought my apu in 2016 and I don't regret it, but I'm not sure I'd buy one in 2022.


Ok, my mistake.


> I've read that the PCEngines struggles to keep up with network traffic in excess of 100Mb/s.

For reference, quick iperf3 TCP tests on my APU2 (cpu[0123]: AMD GX-412TC SOC, 998.27 MHz; em[0123] at pci[1234] dev 0 function 0 "Intel I211" rev 0x03):

LAN host <-> APU: ~410 Mbps

LAN host <-> APU (over WireGuard): ~140 Mbps

However, I've put em[123] together as a veb(4) switch without pf involvement and two LAN hosts will get almost the full gigabit between them over that. Would need something bigger if I had a faster uplink or more complex LAN requirements.


What's HP 730? Google tells me it's an ink cartridge....


Ack, sorry.

It's an: HP t730 Thin Client

From dmesg:

cpu0: AMD RX-427BB with AMD Radeon(tm) R7 Graphics, 2697.05 MHz, 15-30-01

4-cores total


It would have been something amazing, if you actually ran it on that ink cartridge(there's some mcu in there, to my knowledge)


Thanks for the heads up and resources.




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