It happens that local provided offers 10Gbit fibre (XGS-PON) via PPPOE (yes, it’s quite crazy) for a reasonable price.

I am curious what type of hardware will be enough for 10Gbit PPPOE?
Especially I am looking for something with as low as possible idle power consumption.

On a software side I am thinking about vyOS.

There are some firewall boxes with Intel U300E and 2xSFP+ cages, but not sure how good they are.

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  • conceptsweb@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use OPNsense on a Xeon E3-1240 v3 and it works super great. I get my full 3Gbps up and down across the WAN. Could probably handle more but my connection is only 3Gbps lol

  • wkm001@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use a Dell R210 ii with a dual port connectx-3 card. This gives it two SFP+ ports. For now it is running pfsense CE. Uses about 30 watts.

    Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz. I have Ethernet running to the ONT and a DAC cable to my 10G switch. I’ve had Internet as fast as 2G/2G and this system is yawning.

  • oneplane@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Single core high frequency, but tbh at that speed PPP is going to need ASIC support to have reasonable performance.

  • sh0ckwavevr6@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m with bell in Canada and they have something similar. My GPON is connected to a mikrotik switch and I use OPNSense on a Proxmox VM to manage the PPPOE handshake.

    Mine is only 1.5gbps but it works great! It’s super stable.