Intel based Thomas-Krenn Firewall Server

Rackserver are optimal for the operation of an Open Source Firewall such as OPNsense in larger surroundings, Rackserver are optimal. In this article, we present suitable Intel based rackserver that we have tested with OPNsense at Thomas-Krenn.

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Firewall optimized Intel based server

The following table shows Intel based server that we have tested with OPNsense at Thomas-Krenn:

Server	RI1102A-F Ver.2	RI1104D	RI1102D-F	RI1102D-F Ver.2	RI1102-SMXDFH	RI1101-SMXEH	RI1101-SMXEFH	RI1102-SMXE	invalid id	RI1104-SMXEH	RI1204-CHXEH	RI1208-SMXE	invalid id	invalid id	invalid id	invalid id	invalid id	RI1104-SMXSH	RI1204-AIXSG	RI1208-SMXS	invalid id	RI1212-SMXS	RI1208-SMXS	RI1208-AIXSN
special features	low power consumption Front-IO	6 x 1 GBit 2x 10 GBit	6 x 1 GBit 2x 10 GBit Front-IO	4x 1 GBit 4x 10 GBit Front-IO	4x 1 GBit 2x 25 Gbit Front-IO	Xeon E-2300 2 NICs		Xeon E-2300 up to 4 NICs					Xeon Scalable 2nd Gen 2 NICs 2x 10 Gbit (X11SPi-TF)				Xeon Scalable 3rd Gen up to 4 NICs (X12SPL-LN4F) 2x 10 Gbit (X12SPi-TF)						Xeon Scalable 4th Gen 2 NICs 2x 10 Gbit (X13SEI-TF)
Mainboard	A2SDi-2C-HLN4F A2SDi-4C-HLN4F	X10SDV-TP8F		X11SDV-4C-TP8F	X12SDV-4C-SP6F	P12R-I X12STL-IF		P12R-M X12STH-F X12STH-LN4F	P12R-M/10G-2T X12STH-F X12STH-LN4F				X11SPL-F X11SPi-TF				X12SPL-F X12SPL-LN4F X12SPi-TF						X13SEI-TF
CPU clock frequency Cores / Threads AES-NI Instructions	Atom C3338 (A2SDi-2C-HLN4F / Atom C3558 (A2SDi-4C-HLN4F) 1,5 GHz / 2,2 GHz 2 /2 - 4 / 4 Ja	Xeon Processor D-1518 2,2 GHz 4 / 8 Ja		Xeon Processor D-2123IT 2,2 GHz 4 / 8 Ja	Xeon Processor D-1718T 2,6 GHz 4 / 8 Ja	Pentium G6405 - Xeon E-2388G 2,6 GHz - 4,10 GHz 2 / 4 - 8 / 16 Ja							Xeon Bronze 3204 - Xeon Gold 5222 1,9 GHz - 3,8 GHz 4 / 8 - 16 / 32 Ja				Xeon Silver 4309Y - Xeon Gold 5315Y 2,1 GHz - 3,2 GHz 8 / 16 - 16 / 32 Ja	Xeon Silver 4309Y - Xeon Gold 6346 2,0 GHz - 3,6 GHz 8 / 16 - 32 / 64 Ja	Xeon Silver 4309Y - Xeon Platinum 8380 2,0 GHz - 3,6 GHz 8 / 16 - 40 / 80 Ja				Xeon Bronze 3408U - Xeon Platinum 8580 1,8 GHz - 3,9 GHz 8 / 8 - 60 / 120 Ja
RAM	4 - 64 GB (max. 32GB bei der 2C Version)	4 - 128 GB		16 - 256 GB	16 - 256 GB	4 - 64 GB		4 - 128 GB					16 GB - 1 TB				16 GB - 1 TB						16 - 512 GB
Disk (SATA)	2	4	2						3	4		8	2	4	8	12	2	4		8		12	8
Disk (more)	1 M.2 SATA/PCIe (nur bei der 4C Version)	1 M.2 SATA/PCIe				1 M.2 PCIe							1 M.2 SATA/PCIe				1 M.2 SATA/PCIe						2 M.2 PCIe
NICs 1Gbit (included)	4	6 (2x i210, 4x i350)		4 (4x i350)	4 (2x i210, 2x i350)	2 2x i210 (P12R-I und X12STL-IF)		2 2x i210 (P12R-M) 2 2x i210 (X12STH-F) 4 4x i210 (X12STH-LN4F)	2 2x i210 (X12STH-F) 4 4x i210 (X12STH-LN4F)				2 2x i210 (X11SPL-F)				2 2x i210 (X12SPL-F) 4 4x i210 (X12SPL-LN4F)						-
NICs 10Gbit (included)	-	2 (2x X552 SFP+)		4 (2x X722 10GBASE-T, 2x X722 10GbE SFP+)	-				2 2x X710-AT2 (P12R-M/10G-2T)				2 1x X557, 1x X722 (X11SPi-TF)				2 2x X550 (X12SPi-TF)						2 2x X550 (X13SEI-TF)
NICs 25Gbit (included)	-				2 (2x E823-L SFP28)	-																	-
PCIe Slots for additional NICs	1								2 (P12R-M/10G-2T) 3 (X12STH-*)	1	2 (P12R-M/10G-2T) 3 (X12STH-*)		1		7		1		2	7			5

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.

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.