Would be better to have more details about your requirements: throughput, etc; to give a specific recommendation.
My main focus is connections and packets per second. What I'm looking for is:
- Reasonable power efficiency
- 2x SFP for upstream and downstream.
- Stateful firewall capable of handling a webserver with 200-600 req/s and 1k-5k concurrent conns.
- AES256 acceleration for IPSec site-to-site
- IGMPv2 Proxy
- Rack-mountability is a plus
The CCR2004-16G-2S+ is a good option, however, the CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS is similarly priced and has much more "usable" IO IMO.
I would totally be down for building my own router as well, but all of Supermicro's offerings are out of my price range. Maybe I can scour the used market?
As an emergency replacement I'm running a VM with Mikrotik CHR, but this is far from ideal w.r.t. power-consumption and fault-tolerance. The lack of IGMP filtering on the vswitch is causing garbage packets to be blasted at my VMs. Soo so many wasted interrupts. On the bright side, I can now configure VRRP with ease once I get a new router
I've got a nice clean EdgeRouter 4 with rackmount kit that I'm ready to sell (came out of service a few weeks ago). Single SFP, though, so if you really need 2x SFP that won't be sufficient.
Thanks for the offer! However, 2x SFP is really a must.
Was the EdgeRouter connected directly to fibre service and using the other as the downlink to a switch?
Yes, bang on the money.