Lightning Wire Labs is the company behind the flagship series of IPFire appliances. They are developing reference hardware that has been optimised to work perfectly together with IPFire.
Rack-mount appliances
For deployments in larger companies and authorities, or in schools with hundreds of students accessing the Internet, there are rack-mountable appliances available that get the maximum out of IPFire and being power-efficient at the same time.
SOHO/IoT appliances
For small businesses, home offices or remote offices, a series of smaller appliances is available that bring the full set of features of IPFire in a small form-factor. They are also perfect for IoT applications.
Cloud Appliances
Virtual appliances are also available on Amazon Web Services.
Comparison Chart
| IPFire Enterprise Appliance | IPFire Business Appliance | IPFire Office Appliance | IPFire Mini Appliance (2025) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | Rev 1.0 | Rev 1.0 | Rev 1.0 | Rev 2.0 |
| System | ||||
| Processor Series | Intel Xeon-D Series | Intel Atom Server Series | Intel Atom Server Series | Intel Celeron Series |
| Memory | 16 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Networking | ||||
| Ethernet Adapters | 2x 10G, 2x 1G | 4x 1G | 4x 1G | 4x 2.5G |
| Firewall Throughput1 | Full 10G | Full 1G | Full 1G | Full 2.5G |
| Intrusion Prevention Throughput4 | 4.52 GBit/s | 1.48 GBit/s | 750 MBit/s | 1.64 GBit/s |
| VPN | ||||
| IPsec | ||||
| » AES-256-GCM | 2 GBit/s | 307 MBit/s | 307 MBit/s | 1 GBit/s |
| » AES-256-CBC SHA512 | 1 GBit/s | 400 MBit/s3 | 400 MBit/s3 | 640 MBit/s |
| » AES-256-CBC SHA1 | 1.2 GBit/s | 420 MBit/s3 | 420 MBit/s3 | 860 MBit/s |
| » ChaCha20Poly1305 | 1.6 GBit/s | 260 MBit/s | 260 MBit/s | 1 GBit/s |
| WireGuard | 2.6 GBit/s | 780 MBit/s | 780 MBit/s | 1.55 GBit/s |
| Cryptography2 | ||||
| AES 256 GCM (per CPU) | ~2.4 GByte/s | ~740 MByte/s | ~740 MByte/s | ~ 2.3 GByte/s |
| AES 256 CBC | ~422 MByte/s | ~400 MByte/s3 | ~400 MByte/s3 | ~730 MByte/s |
| HWRNG | RDRAND & RDSEED | RDRAND & RDSEED | RDRAND & RDSEED | RDRAND & RDSEED |
| Power Consumption | ||||
| Typical Load | ~34 W | ~25 W | ~16W | ~15W |
| Full CPU Load | ~77 W | ~32 W | 24W | 20 W |
Further Reading
- There are benchmarks for developers available using Lightning Wire Labs Appliances.