Hello forum,
after playing around with some virtual router/firewall I would like to step back to have a physical device in case my servers are down due to what ever reason.
Some background: I am a prosumer running 10 Gigabit network at home and managing the IT of friends and family - so nothing mission critical.
Currently I am using a CCR2004-16G-2S+ for internet traffic, NAT, VPN tunnels, QoS, etc.. This forwards any external traffic to a virtual OPNsense firewall (2x due to HA, one on each server).
Previously I was just using Proxmox virtio driver where the throughput was not really a satisfaction (~ 5-6 Gbit). Today I added a spare Intel X550-T2 and passed it to my main OPNsense. Throughput is not a bit better (~ 8 Gbit).
Additional I have tried to use my existing CCR2004-16G-2S+ for that but with all the stuff currently running on it I only get around 6-7 Gbit for VLAN routing.
In general I am looking for a router which runs near wirespeed with some firewall rules for VLAN routing.
Currently I am thinking of either getting a CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS or the better version CCR2116-12G-4S+