This is an annoyingly unfilled product space. I keep on wanting and the market keeps failing to provide something small, cheap, and with 2 gige ports. Heck, I don't even need x86_64, as long as there's a well supported Debian port.
Anyone have suggestions for even two gigabit ports and the lowest possible price?
Also, I'm curious if anyone has concrete examples of advantages of anything other than Debian for my router. I want to know if I'm missing out on cool features or some such :)
Earlier this week I bought a COOFUN GK41 with two Gbit Ethernet ports for $160. That included 8 GB ram and 120 GB SSD. It arrived yesterday, and I haven't installed OPNsense on it yet. So I can't report how well it works, or even whether it works.
I was considering a QOTOM Q355G4 until I decided I didn't need 4 NICs. They're $300-400ish, depending on configuration.
So the hardware is there, it's just from companies I'd never heard of.
Lowest seems to be Protectli (https://eu.protectli.com/vault-2-port/) or any of the chinese 4-port devices (Topton, Qotom, KingNovy, ...) in a barebones config where you add your own RAM & SSD.
ARM-based devices are not supported by pfSense / opnSense so you should stay with x86_64 based devices.
This is an annoyingly unfilled product space. I keep on wanting and the market keeps failing to provide something small, cheap, and with 2 gige ports. Heck, I don't even need x86_64, as long as there's a well supported Debian port.
Anyone have suggestions for even two gigabit ports and the lowest possible price?
Also, I'm curious if anyone has concrete examples of advantages of anything other than Debian for my router. I want to know if I'm missing out on cool features or some such :)