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Fitlet2 looks rather nice to me. Outfitted with an Intel J3455 CPU, and 2-4 Intel NICs, it is really power efficient for its performance class (idles at ~6 watts, for those that care). There are also some Chinese companies producing slightly cheaper boxes in this category- Qotom, Kettop, Protectli.

When it comes to software, I'm conflicted. I like pfsense, but Netgate has gone a bit sour with the FLOSS community. I'd also consider OpenWRT, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.

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I had a fitlet2, was super excited about it, and took awhile to find one.

I had to do some work to get it to boot properly, and it worked great for a year or so, but then it just died one day, and I could never figure out what its problem was.

Out of warranty by the dead date, never bought another.

Been using a $100 HP 8300 SFF with an i7 since, it's a bit overkill, but the price was right.

Just purchased a Lenovo M90n iot when it was on sale for $215, will see how it works out once I get it.

Protectli seems to be a US company rebadging these Chinese devices. But apparently also putting coreboot on them now, which is nice. I wonder if their coreboot board configs are open source.

> I like pfsense, but Netgate has gone a bit sour with the FLOSS community

I haven't kept up with pfsense. Any chance for a tl;dr?

Okay this seems like a compelling reason to switch to OPNsense https://docs.opnsense.org/history/thefork.html#transparency

Ok TBH I'm unprepared to back up my statement. I only vaguely recall second hand heresay in regards to their exchanges with OpenBSD developers.

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