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The opnsense tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of the open-source firewall and routing platform and the hardware people run it on. Recent coverage centers on a home lab upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 5 running OpenWrt to an Intel N150-powered ZimaBoard 2 running OPNsense, driven by the wish for two built-in Ethernet ports instead of a board-plus-adapter setup. The thread stresses choosing hardware around the firewall software and network layout rather than the smallest machine that can forward packets, and it notes the absence of measured throughput, latency, or power figures. Expect practical router and home-lab build talk rather than enterprise deployment guidance.
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    Raspberry Pi 5 to ZimaBoard 2: Why OPNsense and Dual 2.5GbE Drove the Router Upgrade

    Replacing a Raspberry Pi router with an x86 board is not automatically an upgrade. In the home lab described by XDA’s Ayush Pande, however, the move addressed two specific constraints: he wanted OPNsense, and he wanted two built-in Ethernet connections rather than a board-plus-adapter...