On 2015-08-18, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > I don't use IPsec, and I notice that Ubiquiti don't mention it as a selling > point for the device. I would probably not use the edgerouter for anything too > far outside what the adverising materials say (just running openbsd instead).
The advertising materials quote things like 1Mpps, you aren't going to see anything like that with OpenBSD. They are based around running EdgeOS which uses hw acceleration, afaik this is difficult without Cavium's SDK. Much as I like the idea of non-x86 for this, if I wanted a small router running OpenBSD rather than a platform to hack on I'd first look at the APU. (I don't have one myself but upgraded the OS on one at a customer's recently, it doesn't seem to run as warm as it used to, possibly due to the changes to the mwait-based idle loop which is in 5.8/-current).
