u/Hoot_Jones

I have stumbled across a used Sophos XGS 2300 for around 100 USD and was wondering if I could use it in my homelab. I have an Intel n150 box running Opnsense with Zenarmor (a transparent filtering bridge) the throughput is only ~500Mbit on a 1Gbit connection. So I would like something better. Can I use the XGS 2300 as a replacement or would I need the expensive yearly licenses to cover my usecase? Alternatively I have seen that people have been installing Opnsense on older Sophos firewalls. Is this doable on the XGS 2300 and would the throughput be better that my n150 when running Zenarmor?