That seems a bit pricey considering you still need a few items. I've had a QOTOM for quite a while that has served me well. Looks like they have Intel four 2.5 Gb ports with an N100 for pretty cheap.
Throw a stick of RAM and an m.2 drive in there and it would be cheaper and more capable than the Banana Pi. You could even throw Proxmox on there and virtualize pfsense.
You just described my setup of about a year. I’m struggling to update opnsense, last time I tried it just stopped working and I had to restore a snapshot from proxmox to get it working again. If anyone reading this has any suggestions I’m all ears!
Just updated proxmox and opnsense with few snags and it just worked. Phew.
I've been running OPNsense on Proxmox for years now, it just seems to plug along. I run ZFS for the datastores and do a snapshot before updates, but I've never had to use one.
Recently got it working with HA and inadvertently tested it by having a drive failure on my primary node. I remoted in for for something else and realized it had failed over to the second node about a week before, and I'd never heard a word from the family about internet being down.
How is the software support? It seems like you could alternatively get a nice quad-core x86 Intel box with a handful of 2.5G ports off of AliExpress for around $120(you'd have to bring your own RAM and SSD in those cases though) and enjoy full Ubuntu/OpenWrt support.
According to the official website, it will officially have Android 12.0, Debian 11 and Buildroot support and will unofficially support Armbian, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Kylin OS.
As for x86, I'd really like to try and avoid it for a router.
The competitor is the Orange Pi 5 Plus, also has 2x 2.5GB Ethernet, same SoC, more USBports, no integrated WiFi+BT (optional M.2 module), eMMC connector, M.2 NVMe socket (up to 2280).
I have one, and Armbian has an official release for it and works quite well with a Kioxia 512GB NVMe.
But at this moment I'm just saying there are similar boards out there, and the 5 Plus might be slightly cheaper (no wireless though). Radxa also has a similar board based on same SoC but only has one GbE port and price might be similar to the Banana Pi.
The link you posted has nothing to do with this SoC?
You're not going to get 2.5G over wireguard on the 3588, but you are definitely going to get over 1G.
Wireguard scales well with cores, but due to the way big.LITTLE is implemented on the 3588, it could lose performance if it tries to split the workload between core complexes.