OPNsense DEC740 Ryzen Embedded Fanless Firewall Review (2021)
Given the dire security of COTS routers and Wi-Fi access points, we need alternatives which support open OS + coreboot.<p>$200 used: The venerable PC Engines APU2 is a fanless x86 AMD 10W TDP router with 4GB ECC RAM, TPM 2.0 and GPIO pins, open schematics and coreboot, which can run pfSense, OPNsense, OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenWRT, with virtualization support. mPCIe slots for WiFi, LTE &amp; mSATA.
Constrained by supply chain at present.<p>$200 used: HP t730 and t620 Plus thin clients have an AMD SoC with similar TDP to PC Engines APU2.<p>$200+: MIPS-based Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite&#x2F;4&#x2F;6&#x2F;8 can run Linux and OpenBSD (octeon&#x2F;MIPS), but is also supply chain constrained.<p>$200+: Intel-based <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectli.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;protectli.com&#x2F;</a> (coreboot) and virtualization-capable multi-NIC mini PCs s with unknown UEFI, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31451142" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31451142</a><p>$400 AMD&#x2F;Xilinx wildcard dev board for Robotics, KR260 has Arm SoC, Xilinx FGPA and multiple 1GbE ports + 10GbE SFP, backordered 20 weeks, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.servethehome.com&#x2F;amd-xilinx-kria-kr260-robotics-kit-launched&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.servethehome.com&#x2F;amd-xilinx-kria-kr260-robotics-...</a><p>$400: ASRock 4x4 dual-NIC has Ryzen Embedded or 4000-series SoC with Realtek NICs, questionable BIOS and limited support focus on Linux&#x2F;BSD.<p>$400 used: HP t740 thin client with Ryzen Embedded is Mac Mini size, with PCIe slot for low-profile quad-port or SFP NIC, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.servethehome.com&#x2F;hp-t740-thin-client-review-tinyminimicro-with-pcie-slot-amd-ryzen&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.servethehome.com&#x2F;hp-t740-thin-client-review-tiny...</a>.<p>Some SOHO networking devices made by Microtik, QNAP and Ubiquiti contain Arm SoCs made by Amazon&#x27;s Annapurna Labs, who also make AWS Nitro silicon, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Annapurna_Labs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Annapurna_Labs</a>