I'm looking for a more powerful successor of the APU2. Does anyone have a recommendation? Anyone maybe experience with the devices from Protectli, the Vault Pro VP2430 with Intel I226-V igc(4) perhaps?
It has to run #OpenBSD and a dozen of 100mbit #WireGuard tunnels.
/cc @mischa
Thanks all for the feedback.
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UPDATE: Protectli suspects that it's a race condition in igc(4). According to them OpenBSD's igc might not be as stable as the driver for Linux.
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I received a brand new Protectli VP2430 yesterday and it felt very solid. I've installed OpenBSD 7.7 stable and have been testing it by running ssh vp2430 'cat /dev/random' >/dev/null the whole night and most of today. First from one host it reached 72 MByte/sec with a load of 1.6. Then added another ssh session and it topped at 118 MByte/sec with a load of 3.8. It got quite hot but I could still hold my hand on it without burning.
This was all over igc0, then I started testing on igc1 with a MTU of 1420 (but the VPN server was another host) and after about 4 hours I got a kernel panic. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with igc(4):
kuijsten
Andrew Hewus Fresh*cpu2: vmmaplk rwlock 0xfffffd8401c63698: enter read deadlock
ddb{2}> trace
db_enter() at db_enter+0x14
panic(ffffffff82553cb9) at panic+0xdd
rw_do_enter_read(fffffd8401c63698,0) at rw_do_enter_read+0x175
uvmfault_lookup(ffff800048a9f3b0,0) at uvmfault_lookup+0x8a
uvm_fault_check(ffff800048a9f3b0,ffff800048a9f3e8,ffff800048a9f418,0) at uvm_fault_check+0x38
uvm_fault(fffffd8401c635b0,6cc016ed000,0,1) at uvm_fault+0xed
kpageflttrap(ffff800048a9f530,6cc016ed024) at kpageflttrap+0x158
kerntrap(ffff800048a9f530) at kerntrap+0xaf
alltraps_kern_meltdown() at alltraps_kern_meltdown+0x7b
uvm_map_uaddr(6cc016ed000,6cc016ed000) at uvm_map_uaddr+0x1e
uvm_map_splitentry(fffffd8401c635b0,6cc016ed000,6cc016ee000,0) at uvm_map_splitentry+0x20b
sys_mprotect(ffff800048a847f0,ffff800048a9f7d0,ffff800048a9f740) at sys_mprotect+0x17c
syscall(ffff800048a9f7d0) at syscall+0x5ec
Xsyscall() at Xsyscall+0x128
end of kernel
end trace frame: 0x701102e59f30, count: -14
$ pkg_info
intel-firmware-20250512v0 microcode update binaries for Intel CPUs
inteldrm-firmware-20250509 firmware binary images for inteldrm(4) driver
quirks-7.103 exceptions to pkg_add rules
symon-2.89p0 active host monitoring tool
updatedb-0p0 pkg_add speed up cache
vmm-firmware-1.16.3p0 firmware binary images for vmm(4) driver