Will there be a firewalla with 10gbe ports?
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On the Firewalla? I need to use language appropriate for the forums, but expletive YES. If it has the throughput to keep up with those ports, has the same functionality (like site to site, VPN, Purple as a remote, etc.), and gives me the same control I currently have, I could easily see shelling out $1500 for it. My hesitation with the Gold Plus is NOT the price, it’s that it doesn’t get me a significant upgrade over the gold. By loosing a couple ports to do the link aggregation, the only reason I was able to make it work was the support of the WiFi antenna as one more interface. I love the Firewalla. After going through multiple options over the years, I finally found one I don’t feel constrained by (and from a company that has been able to stick around for more than a year). With Docker containers, if you give me a high speed interface for attached storage, I’d pay even more (although I may be in the minority here).
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The 5 and 10 Gig ONT has a Fiber interface in an SFP connection and an RJ45 (10GB) port that I would plug into. That’s it just two ports. The 2 Gig service I haven’t seen the ONT for. The 1 gig service just has 4 gigabit ports but only one seems active, and an internal optical connection. Maybe they turn on a second for 2 Gig. I will call and try and find out.
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Here is our official thread, and and also signup link https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/25574346848275-Help-us-make-the-Firewalla-Gold-10Gbit-Unit
(with permission) I also included our 10gbit prototype; this usually is where a customized board come from
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I can’t help but wonder why one would like to have more than 2 interfaces on a firewall. On my FWP the LAN interface is connected to a 10Gbps switch, there my NUC and NAS have SFP+ links. Why increasing on Firewalla the footprint, energy consumption, pricing, R&D, and QA when anybody serious will always have switch + VLANs?
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In the US, most Fiber companies are now offering 5 and 10 GB Fiber (Ziply offers both in my area). I want to upgrade my 1 GB service, but the Gold Plus with only 4 2.5 ports really limits my use case to upgrading to the 2 GB plan. Yes, I can combine 2 of the 2.5’s into a single 5, but that limit the flexibility of the 4 ports. I will probably upgrade to the Gold Plus, and the next day what I want will be introduced. That’s always my luck.
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The back of the ONT (required) has a single 10 gig RJ-45. It does support 2.5, and 5 as well, but if I run 2.5 off of it to the Gold Plus, I'm loosing half my bandwidth. I need something that will take a 5 gig (or 10 gig) ethernet connection and split it into two 2.5 gig runs for link aggregation on the Gold Plus. There will be nothing other than these two devices plugged into it, so the simpler the better Then I second unit to go from the dual 2.5s to a single 5 OR a switch that will take the dual 2.5 and aggregate them into a single channel from the gold. I'm running 5 gbe from there as I don't have the cabling to support 10 gbe yet. At this end I don't need more than one 5 gbe and a one gigabit connection, but I can obviously drop a switch in there if is only has a single output.
The SFP connection is dedicated for the fiber in, and they don't support putting the SFP into your own equipment (yet).
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I personally won't pay that much, firewalla is based of pfsense from what I read, but with a much better gui and app. My point being if you can build a pfsense 10gbe box for like 300 that is capable of doing ips/ids etc then the price is steep.
I ended up with a dream machine se which can handle upto 3.5Gbps thoughput with FW turned on but had 10gbe wan port. Other options are asus 10gbe router etc..
For me I would have also had to take into account shipping and import tax and duty which made it very expensive for the top end model. With no EU/UK based distribution, if there was an issue then I would have had to ship it back to the US at my expense so the warranty or guantee is limited.
Edit: it is not free, you paid for the product overall just like you do with other manufacturer like ubiquiti, asus which also have new features added without a subscription based model.
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And I’d still love a recommendation for the cheapest way to turn a 5 gbe port into dual 2.5’s to send to the Firewalla Gold, and then to turn the dual 2.5’s back into 5. I was thinking two QNAP QSW-M2108R-2C‘s. Yes they have options with fewer ports, but on Amazon at least they are more expensive. Over $900 just to utilize the throughput of the Gold Plus seems a bit high. I’d really rather stay with the Firewalla then say NETGEAR Armor.
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