R86S Soft Routing Multi-net port, Intel mini host N5105 N6005 8GB/16GB/32GB 10 Gigabit fiber port 2.5G (U3 Black)

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You may skip configuring VLANs as well by entering “N” or pressing “Enter” since you may configure them through the web interface after OPNsense installed. I have used the 10gbe Onti (bought off AliExpress) sfp in this unit. It will connect internally at 10gbe,but will negotiate with 1, 2.5, 5 & 10 gbe network equipment.

R86S How to Install and Configure OPNsense on the Gowin R86S

Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core Jasper Lake processor @ 2.0GHz / 2.9GHz (Turbo) with Intel UHD graphics 605; 10W TDP This review took trying OpenWRT, pfSense, OPNsense, Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, Windows, and even VMware ESXi 8.0 so it was a relatively massive effort. Before we get to that, let us get to the hardware, starting with the outside of the chassis. R86S Mini PC External Hardware OverviewI used iperf version 2.0.14a, and not iperf3, according to the official documentation of performance measure from Nvidia. Some are going to look at the slightly larger chassis and say that GoWin gave up on the mini PC. The N305 uses more power and gets hotter than the older chips while providing a huge capability jump. Having a slightly larger chassis helps cool the system, but we would have been willing to see a larger chassis size jump if it meant better cooling and lower noise. R86s Pro And R86s Side By Side 4 For this test, I enabled Zenarmor on one interface and Suricata on the other interface since they both cannot run on the same interface at the same time due to limitations with netmap. Typically you would run Suricata on the WAN and Zenarmor on the LAN.

R86S Pro is an Everything Revolution with 25GbE This GoWin R86S Pro is an Everything Revolution with 25GbE

Mellanox. This is just my first hand experience. I used to use them as they were cheaper 10G solutions for used lab equipment compared to intel (typically) for sfp+ stuff but recently I’ve been having issues (more so on the windows side of things, and even throughput on Linux) compared to the intel sfp+ solutions. I’m guessing Mellanox because it’s cheaper?

The overall performance is still not what we see from higher power parts, but one gets efficiency as the trade-off. OpenSSL Performance Pulling the top off, we can note that the motherboard is very integrated. This is not the platform if you want to swap components on. Our system has 16GB of memory in a dual channel DDR4-2933 configuration. There is also an 8GB option. There is a CNVi Intel AX201 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth NIC. There is even 128GB of onboard eMMC storage. GoWin R86s Internal CPU Side With Memory And Intel AX201 To determine the worst case performance with Suricata, I enabled all of the rulesets. In practice, you should only enable the rules that are applicable to your network to minimize the amount of rules that need to be processed. For instance, if you are not running a FTP server, you would not need the ET open/emerging-ftp ruleset. Suricata: 10G

R86S mini PC features Intel Jasper Lake processor, optional

You may want to set up your R86S router with OPNsense while the WAN is plugged into your primary router until you are ready to deploy it as your main router since that allows you to test the configuration without taking down your entire network. You should see something similar to the following screen after OPNsense has booted. Configure OPNsense On the NVIDIA ConnectX-4 Lx NICs, we were topping out around 20Gbps, but we did not tune for the full CX4 tuning guide parameters, so there might have been more there. It is right to think about this having more performance than 10GbE, but we would not expect dual 25Gbps links running at full speed. R86S G-Series only– 2x 10GbE SFP+ cages through an NVIDIA-Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual 10GbE OCP NIC 2.0 card

On the R86S-U4, the wireless module is actually detected in OPNsense unlike the “B” and “P” series models I used in the past. However, the wireless module does not support AP (Access Point) mode so you cannot use it for that purpose. I recommend using dedicated wireless APs since you can locate them in more ideal locations and deploy multiple APs to ensure full coverage of your home. Gowin informed me that future models will include a wireless module which supports AP mode. There is something about these systems that is just cool. 2.5GbE and NVMe are great. As is the upgrade to the Alder Lake-N Intel Core i3-N305, 32GB and 128GB eMCC. Simple things, however, like adding the extra USB Type-A port, make a big quality-of-life improvement as well. R86s Pro Angle Reboot OPNsense and you should now see the 10G interfaces to assign! When I saw how easy it was enable the 10G interfaces, I was very happy because I have been wanting to test this system for quite a while. Performance Another change was moving from a standard HDMI port to a micro HDMI port. Likely this was done to save space for the extra USB port. Even though there appears to be plenty of room on the outside chassis, the layout on the motherboard probably would make it more difficult to squeeze more larger sized ports on it. Because of this change to a micro HDMI port, Gowin includes a micro HDMI to HDMI cable in case you do not have such a cable on hand like you might with a standard HDMI cable. I think it is great they included that cable because I would have had to go digging around my Raspberry Pi cables to find an HDMI adapter. emerth Totally agree. These are being revered by STH and a small almost religious following for the cuteness factor alone. Fans that are non standard and CPU that are underpowered for the NIC interfaces and in small formfactor for the cuteness factor alone.

This GoWin R86S Pro is an Everything Revolution with 25GbE

Entre las ventajas del R86S frente al NanoPC T6 aparte de su increíble conectividad a redes con tres puertos RJ45 a 2,5 GbE (y dos más a 10 GbE en el modelo U) está basado en una arquitectura Intel con potentes procesadores de 11ª generación que se conocen con el nombre en clave “Tiger Lake”. The R86S mini PC is a compact computer designed for networking applications. For example you could use it as firewall, network-attached storage device or media server, or as a general-purpose computer. En la foto os hemos puesto los tres equipos sobre los que actualmente estamos “trabajando” en la casa del pueblo. Os tenemos que confesar que preferimos utilizar el R86S ya que, aunque se refrigera por un pequeño ventilador que suena como un pequeño murmullo no es ni con mucho tan molesto como el del ventilador del Minibook de Chuwi.This review took trying OpenWRT, pfSense, OPNsense, Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, Windows, and even VMware ESXi 8.0 so it was a relatively massive effort. Before we get to that, let us get to the hardware, starting with the outside of the chassis. In terms of power consumption, this unit uses 10-11W at idle without ports plugged in. GoWin R86s Angle 2 Select the disk which you wish to install OPNsense. Since OpenWRT was preinstalled on the R86S, there will be several partitions listed (along with your USB drive). Simply choose the first entry called mmcsd0 to select the main eMMC disk.