I'm looking to put in a pfsense firewall / router at home to separate varrious networks. However, I'm a little concerned about network performance. All the networks (except the WAN) are gigabit and looking at the pfsense website, it suggests that to get 501Mbit+ I need enterprise-level hardware (3GHz CPU+).
How accurate is this? Is it really true that if I want to do simple packet filtering between gigabit networks at gigabit speeds, I need huge amounts of beefy hardware?
How accurate is this? Is it really true that if I want to do simple packet filtering between gigabit networks at gigabit speeds, I need huge amounts of beefy hardware?