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2 HN users recommended this between 2017 and 2018, in 2 comments.
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The Pi is far too slow to do more than a couple of MB/s of vpn traffic so hosting a VPN server on it feels like a rather pointless exercise.
A bit more expensive but at least 100x faster option would be https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-A1SRi-2558F-Intel-Fanless-...
And I suppose something like https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Micro-Appliance-Gigabit-Bare... or maybe https://www.amazon.com/Solana-Tech-pfSense-firewall-router/d... would be an OK cheaper alternative.
Correct me if I'm wrong - I haven't tried it - but it looks like you should be able to run OpenBSD on ARM https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html
I'll check what the energy consumption on my router is. I'm using an AMD chip which I had lying around. You're probably right that it uses a bit more power than necessary.
I was thinking about getting something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Micro-Appliance-Gigabit-Bare... which uses 10W. It should be easy to install *BSD on something similar.