Nah, even if it didnt have throughput issues it would be far more effort than necessary to set up.
My recomendation, get a used Linksys WRT1200AC and put openwrt on it. It's basically as if they put a raspberry pi 3 into a linksys router, it has much more processing and memory than most cheap routers and you can get it used for about $50.
Nope. Get yourself one of those N100 things from topton. They are cheap and work well with proxmox/opnsense.
And waaaaaaay more powerful.
I will check it out
might work, but not for a lot of throughput.
CPU is not powerful enough, especially if you also dealing with encryption
You have only 1 NIC on these, which you will need to share for external/internal with some vlan config or virtualization (already cuts bandwidth potential in half
a work around for #2 is to use a USB NIC, which will put you in a bad spot with issue #1 again.
Get an Intel NUC, or ChromeBox or something like that. Or you can even run it virtualized inside Proxmox on another machine in your homelab. This is what i do, and it sits with a bunch of LXC's on the same machine (haproxy, UnifiController, CloudflareTunnel). Basically, all my network contollers on the same machine neatly in separate containers. Powered by a super cheap Celeron G3950 and 8GB RAM. food for thought.
Yeah, I have one old server with a two-core Intel processor, so I was thinking about using it instead of the RPI, but IMO it is quite overkill…dunno what to use the remaining power for
a small x86 box with a couple nics and opnsense would work far better.
This is the way to go. If anyone has suggestions on one, I would love to see them. Most only have 1 nic. A lot of the ones with 2 have a bunch of unnecessary extra IO and cost alot.
RPI zero? Without Ethernet ports? How? Just that is enough of a deal. Without thinking about the cpu power and the fact that pfsense, the free version, doesn't work on arm.
Ethernet ports = enc28j60 and sub connector as the second port
Are you mentally challenged?
Just bored 😂