@johnpoz, @jwj Thank you

I assume you mean hardware to run as a firewall/router with pfSense rather than just to generate traffic?

The graphics card makes no difference at all here other than potentially being unsupported by pfSense at all making install difficult. Better to use on-board video in most cases or serial console.

You don't mention RAM there but it's not really significant for high throughput.

Network card choice is though. Use something Intel based, ix or ixl.

There is a huge variation in performance across the range of E3 v3 CPUs, you need to be more specific. But the Ryzen 3900X appears more powerful than any of them. In a synthetic benchmark at least.

The 5Gbps VPN requirement is a far harder ask then 10Gbps total throughput. But again there are many variables there.

Steve

@Sergei_Shablovsky

Yes.
https://qna.habr.com/q/862669

The card you have linked to is the QXG-10G2T-107. But for either we would need to know what chipset it uses.

Edit: Looks like Mellanox ConnectX-4 LX....
If that's true they may be supported by:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mlx5en

Would need to know the actual PCI IDs to say further.

Steve

@jknott

There is an update to an openSUSE 15.2 version that works. Here's the repository.

@mhertzfeld Sounds like a good plan. Yes, unfortunately paying monthly for a service you will not use 99% of the time is the only option with almost all data plans. If you are interested in T-Mobile look into a T-Mobile MVNO. They might offer lower amounts of minimum data plans for less cost on the same T-Mobile network.

Good luck.

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