So I just pulled the trigger on an upgrade to my home Internet service, which will be (supposedly) 1.2 Gbps, and if I want to take full advantage of that, it looks like I'll need to upgrade my router hardware. I'm currently running pfSense on a Protectli box with 4x GbE ports, and that system's LAN port is connected to a Brocade ICX6450-48P. And I'll likely want to run either pfSense or OPNsense on the new hardware.
What I think I need is something with at least one RJ45 port of at least 2.5GbE for the WAN connection, and at least one SFP+ 10 GbE port to connect to the switch. I don't think I really need more network ports, if I want to route across local networks (which I don't have at this point, but might in the future), even if I don't want to do it in the switch, I'd expect I could use VLANs across a single physical interface for that. But the requirement for one RJ45 port at > GbE, and one SFP+ port at 10 GbE, seems to narrow down the field quite a bit.
I've found this unit on eBay that looks like it would do, though it really seems to be overkill:
But I'd be interested in any other suggestions.
What I think I need is something with at least one RJ45 port of at least 2.5GbE for the WAN connection, and at least one SFP+ 10 GbE port to connect to the switch. I don't think I really need more network ports, if I want to route across local networks (which I don't have at this point, but might in the future), even if I don't want to do it in the switch, I'd expect I could use VLANs across a single physical interface for that. But the requirement for one RJ45 port at > GbE, and one SFP+ port at 10 GbE, seems to narrow down the field quite a bit.
I've found this unit on eBay that looks like it would do, though it really seems to be overkill:
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But I'd be interested in any other suggestions.