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    Hardware for 1gbps/1gbps PPPoe and vlan on wan side? (centurylink gigabit fiber)

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      yelladog-superjet
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      I've got a gig symmetrical connection right now and want to use pfsense as UTM.  I've already eliminated the Centurylink C2100t box using an Ubiquiti ERPOE-5 Edgerouter. My connection goes through their ONT and comes out tagged vlan201. As far as the edgerouter… aside from it having hardware offload for the PPPoe connection I cant see much upside to continuing the use of it for a firewall.  Browsing these forums for a while now it seems PPPoe is only single thread at this point in pfsense and fails to handle a line speed connection.

      What would I be looking at hardware wise?

      Various Jetway boxes caught my eye as well as some qotom boxes on amazon.

      I have various managed, L# managed and unmanaged switches on my home network, dont use upnp and have firewall rules set on the edgerouter to drop most everything I havent specifically created an exception for.

      I dont have a budget in mind but would like to run 2-4 vpn clients through there at >100mbps.

      My only experience so far with pfsense is running virtually in workstation pro.

      Where does that put me?

      Thank anyone in advance that can help me.

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