I´m open to upgrading the PFsense hardware to something more powerful if that would significantly increase performace.
Intel Xeon D-1518, D-1528 or D-1548 with 4/8, 6/12, 8/16, 12/24 or 16/32 Cores/Threads.
Intel Xeon E3-12xxv3 (4C/4T) starting @3,0GHz upstairs
Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 (4C/8T - 6C/12T) starting @3,0GHz upstairs
….and 4GB of ram.
8 GB - 16 GB ECC so fast as you could get your hands on (DDR3-1600,1860 or DDR4-2133)
and it will be supported by the Board and CPU! Mostly the CPU is powerful enough, but their
memory system got rendered!
high up the mbuf size to 1 million, because each CPU core is opening for each LAN Port one queue!
if Squid is in use, please high also up the default memory RAM size (256 MB) and usage of Squid.