Morning all.
Going to be building my own router which for the time being only needs to handle 20MBit ADSL - Easy.
However, it's going to need headroom to route/firewall 1Gigabit Down/100Mbit Up Fibre to the premises. This is beyond my technical experience from a requirements point of view.
pfSense recommends server grade/modern desktop kit of at least 3Ghz in CPU processing power but I imagine a little more is going to be needed when I start adding packages and services.
I will need Traffic Shaping/QoS on-top of regular routing and firewalling duties.
Preferably I want a mini-ITX form-factor with modest power usage. My initial research has pointed me in the direction of a Socket 1155 Intel board that also has integrated Dual Gigabit LAN but also has PCI-E expansion.
What are peoples thoughts on a project like this?
Additionally, what kind of hardware would the ISP provide as part of the service? Even the fastest of the off-the-shelf router products only manage ~800Mbps WAN-to-LAN. Are they going to sell a 1Gigabit product with hardware that only can suck down 80% of it?
I've posted here as consumer 1gigabit fibre to the premises is pretty rare and the enterprise environment is likely far more applicable.
Was recommended a RouterBoard RB2011L-IN elsewhere which has a claimed ~950Mbps throughput but I have no experience with RouterOS and it's flexibility.
Going to be building my own router which for the time being only needs to handle 20MBit ADSL - Easy.
However, it's going to need headroom to route/firewall 1Gigabit Down/100Mbit Up Fibre to the premises. This is beyond my technical experience from a requirements point of view.
pfSense recommends server grade/modern desktop kit of at least 3Ghz in CPU processing power but I imagine a little more is going to be needed when I start adding packages and services.
I will need Traffic Shaping/QoS on-top of regular routing and firewalling duties.
Preferably I want a mini-ITX form-factor with modest power usage. My initial research has pointed me in the direction of a Socket 1155 Intel board that also has integrated Dual Gigabit LAN but also has PCI-E expansion.
What are peoples thoughts on a project like this?
Additionally, what kind of hardware would the ISP provide as part of the service? Even the fastest of the off-the-shelf router products only manage ~800Mbps WAN-to-LAN. Are they going to sell a 1Gigabit product with hardware that only can suck down 80% of it?
I've posted here as consumer 1gigabit fibre to the premises is pretty rare and the enterprise environment is likely far more applicable.
Was recommended a RouterBoard RB2011L-IN elsewhere which has a claimed ~950Mbps throughput but I have no experience with RouterOS and it's flexibility.
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