OpenWrt comes with a default firewall, which you can of course modify to your needs. The CPU required depends on the speed of the links, and what exactly you want to do. NAT will use some cycles, but a 10 year old MIPS based router can NAT a few hundred megabits.
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 15:04 American Citizen <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > To all: > > If possible I would like to talk privately to anyone who has installed a > Linux Firewall, preferably OPNsense, onto a linux box as right now I am > trying to get up to speed on firewall issues and current > state-of-the-art. I am considering using a Beelink mini-pc as the > platform, but it will have to be loaded with one of the linux flavors OS. > > See > https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Intel-2-9Ghz-USB3-0-Type-C/dp/B09J4D6TMG/ > > I am trying to determine if this is a good choice for the hardware or > not? I am NOT going to use Win11, of course. > > - Randall > > >
