Charles Curley wrote: > It should run Debian. > > It should either have two gigabit (or better) Ethernet interfaces or > have suitable expansion capability. > > It should be quiet: no fans, and low power requirements. A small > physical footprint would be nice. > > Most of the time it will run headless, but occasionally I will need to > stick a monitor and keyboard on it. VGA will do fine. > > It will be a router. It will have at least DNS, DHCP, apt-cacher-ng and > firewalld on it. Modest disk and RAM will be fine. > > WiFi is handled elsewhere for now, but I won't turn it down. > > SSD for storage would be nice, although the FIT-PCs do fine with IDE > spinning rust.
I bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Firewall-Appliance-HUNSN-Barebone-Storage/dp/B0B53MKZBX/ (4 x 2.5Gb NICs, N5105 CPU) -- I paid about $250 including 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. Works very nicely. For about $70 less you can get them with 2x 2.5Gb instead of 4; for a little more money you can get up to 5x 2.5Gb NICs. You can add wifi via a miniPCIe slot; I didn't bother. There are antenna holes. -dsr-
