<![CDATA[Lowest power consumption board capable of vpn a 300/300 line]]>Hi

I am looking for a pfsense board to do some basic firewalling and create a vpn tunnel for a 300/300 Mbit/s line (nothing more). Low power consumption specially during idle is important, more than purchase low price, I do not mind paying more if it means less power consumption.

Something like the Netgate SG-1000 would be ideal but I am guessing it will not be able to process 300/300 vpn encryption despite having crypto acceleration since it is only a 1 core A-8 600Mhz. Is there any other ARM board with a more modern SoC that can run pfSense? I have been unable to find anything. If it is not ARM, can anyone point a board that can meet the requirements and has low power consumption, specially on idle?

Thanks,

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/105516/lowest-power-consumption-board-capable-of-vpn-a-300-300-lineRSS for NodeFri, 09 Oct 2026 05:21:05 GMTSat, 17 Sep 2016 19:45:21 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Lowest power consumption board capable of vpn a 300/300 line on Sat, 17 Sep 2016 22:00:58 GMT]]>there is no pfSense that is able to run on ARM (except perhaps development builds at netgate HQ)

as for filling the 300mbit: that'll depend on the type/brand of vpn you wish to run ==> IPSEC vpn has aes-ni support that can dramatically speed up crypto / openvpn doesn't currently support it.

i haven't tried aes-ni ipsec on any of the c2758 atom boards at work  (see https://store.pfsense.org/SG-8860-1U/ )… others could probably confirm of deny if that'll be able to handle what you need

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