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Re:Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad... by hclalpha on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:49PM (#20437026)
Wonder if DPI/IDS could be setup on this or if it is too slow, I've been looking for a cheap DIY IDS.
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Re:Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad... by mchristen on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:52PM (#20437285)
It's pretty slow TBH. I use mine to run pihole and samba and samba will max out the CPU.

I tried to use mine as a firewall for my Google Fiber but w/ just basic rules enabled it would max out around 500mbps, I imagine I could probably get 50-100mbps out of it running a decent IPS ruleset, but I haven't tried.

The Topaz switch chip uses the RGMII 1gbps uplink to the CPU so even though there's 3 1gbps ethernet ports you'll only ever get 1gbps through the device if you have to do any software level processing.

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Re:Espresso-hole – EspressoBin-based personal router with ad... by ric3rcar on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:01PM (#20437089)
Haven't tried myself, but there's a thread discussing this: forum.level1techs.com/t/firewall-on-espressobin/131206/9
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