Common Build Guide
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Updating this thread as promised. I temporarily solved my issue by setting up a new tunnel just on the VM that I'm using to perform the high traffic work. My passmark 783 score CPU on Realtek drivers is still pushing 600mbps over the line when not dealing with encryption. Small bonus: fewer connections for snort to inspect since I'm tunneling through the router.
I'm pretty convinced that one of the newer QOTOM-Q355G4 units with an i5-5250U might be happily into "overkill" territory, but I'd have to get one and conduct tests to be positive.
As for the HdHomeRun situation, I'd like to clarify in case others are confused about issues with discovery:
HDHomeRun does NOT use mDNS. You can't use Avahi to forward discovery packets as far as I can tell (someone please prove me wrong!)This is a broadcast packet from HDHomeRun discovery:
This is an mDNS packet which uses multicast:
This is why I'm pretty sure you need to BRIDGE everyone onto the same subnet in order to use HDHomeRun discovery. I don't see a simple way out of this.
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One of the new i3 K parts has I think one of if not the highest clock speeds of any consumer Intel CPU, that's the one you'd want for OpenVPN max speed!
Intel Core i3-7350K @ 4.20GHz
It's no longer number 3 on the Passmark Single Thread performance chart with the new coffee lake CPUs starting to trickle out, but it's still a price performance leader and then some!
It's a heck of a CPU for the money and the real sleeper of the Kaby Lake CPUs.
Also if you are a gamer, that's the CPU benchmark list to prioritize your CPU choice from. The vast majority of games are STILL heavily single thread dependent. In the off chance you have a beast of a video card like a GTX 1080ti so that your CPU will be more likely to bottleneck things, then you want something high on that single thread chart.