Advantech Industry Firewall server
For the operation of an open source firewall such as OPNsense, a multiple number of different server systems is suitable. In this article, we present Advantech Industry Firewall systems that were tested with OPNsense at Thomas-Krenn.
Firewall optimized Advantech systems
The following chart shows Advantech systems that were tested with OPNsense at Thomas-Krenn:
| Server | UNO-2271G V2 |
FWA-1012VC-4CA1S |
FWA-1012VC-8CA1S |
FWA-1112VC-4CA1S |
FWA-2012-16A1S |
FWA-1214LRI-4CA1R |
FWA-1214FRI-8CA1R |
FWA-3034 |
FWA-5072-00A1R |
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| Special features |
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| Mainboard | UNO-2271G-N221AE | FWA-1012VC 4-Core | FWA-1012VC 8-Core | Advantech Mainboard FWA-1112VC | Advantech Mainboard FWA-2012 | Advantech Mainboard FWA-1214 | Advantech Mainboard FWA-1214 | Advantech Mainboard FWA-3034 | Advantech Mainboard FWA-5072-00A1R |
CPU
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Celeron N6210
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Atom C3558
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Atom C3758
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Atom C3558
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Atom C3958
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Atom x7433RE
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Atom x7835RE
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Core i3-13100TE - Core i7-12700E
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Xeon Silver 4509Y - Xeon Platinum 8580
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| RAM | 2 - 8 GB | 8 - 32 GB | 8 - 32 GB | 8 - 32 GB | 8 - 32 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 8 - 64 GB | 16 - 1024 GB |
| Disk (SATA) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Disk (NVMe and other) |
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1 SATA/NVMe M.2 2280 | 2 SATA/NVMe M.2 2280 |
| NICs 1 Gbit (contained) | 2
(2x i211) |
6
(4x RJ45, 2x SFP) |
8
(6x RJ45, 2x SFP) |
4
(2x i211, 2x X553 L) |
6
(6x RJ45) |
4
(4x RJ45) |
6
(4x RJ45 und 2x SFP) |
2
(2x SFP) |
2
(2x RJ45) |
| NICs 2,5 Gbit (contained) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8
(8x i226-LM) |
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| NICs 10 Gbit (contained) | - | - | - | 2
(2x X553 N) |
- | - | - | 2
(2x X710) |
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| NICs 25 Gbit (contained) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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Author: Thomas Niedermeier Thomas Niedermeier working in the product management team at Thomas-Krenn, completed his bachelor's degree in business informatics at the Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences. Since 2013 Thomas is employed at Thomas-Krenn and takes care of OPNsense firewalls, the Thomas-Krenn-Wiki and firmware security updates.
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Translator: Alina Ranzinger Alina has been working at Thomas-Krenn.AG since 2024. After her training as multilingual business assistant, she got her job as assistant of the Product Management and is responsible for the translation of texts and for the organisation of the department.
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