It happens that local provided offers 10Gbit fibre (XGS-PON) via PPPOE (yes, it’s quite crazy) for a reasonable price.
I am curious what type of hardware will be enough for 10Gbit PPPOE?
Especially I am looking for something with as low as possible idle power consumption.
On a software side I am thinking about vyOS.
There are some firewall boxes with Intel U300E and 2xSFP+ cages, but not sure how good they are.
I use OPNsense on a Xeon E3-1240 v3 and it works super great. I get my full 3Gbps up and down across the WAN. Could probably handle more but my connection is only 3Gbps lol
I’m with bell in Canada and they have something similar. My GPON is connected to a mikrotik switch and I use OPNSense on a Proxmox VM to manage the PPPOE handshake.
Mine is only 1.5gbps but it works great! It’s super stable.
Maybe one of these:
I use a Dell R210 ii with a dual port connectx-3 card. This gives it two SFP+ ports. For now it is running pfsense CE. Uses about 30 watts.
Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz. I have Ethernet running to the ONT and a DAC cable to my 10G switch. I’ve had Internet as fast as 2G/2G and this system is yawning.
Single core high frequency, but tbh at that speed PPP is going to need ASIC support to have reasonable performance.