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It needs to be rack mountable, 1-2Us. Ideally I'd like to spend no more than $300 on it. Any more than that and it needs to be well worth it.

Doesn't really need to have beefy specs, just a decent dual or quad core CPU, 4-8 GB RAM, and it doesn't even need to have a hard drive as I have plenty of spares on hand. Must have two or more NICs, gigabit or better.

I'm open to application-oriented equipment if it can meet my needs, but the current plan is to just throw OPNsense on the machine.

It needs to be rack mountable, 1-2Us. Ideally I'd like to spend no more than $300 on it. Any more than that and it needs to be well worth it. Doesn't really need to have beefy specs, just a decent dual or quad core CPU, 4-8 GB RAM, and it doesn't even need to have a hard drive as I have plenty of spares on hand. Must have two or more NICs, gigabit or better. I'm open to application-oriented equipment if it can meet my needs, but the current plan is to just throw OPNsense on the machine.

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[–] • 2 pts

If you don't mind it being different than anything else on the market, Mikrotik makes some decent stuff. I've had an RB2011U in my rack for a number of years. It rarely gets rebooted and has been pretty dependable. Couple of the ports have lost their ability to do anything more than 10baseT over the years, but I can't complain.

https://mikrotik.com/product/RB2011UiAS-RM

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PoE has my interest. My WAP supports PoE, but my switch doesn't. I wonder if I could power the WAP from the router? Not sure how that would work network-wise though.

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I have no idea, to be honest. I just use a commercial router with Tomato (in switch mode) for a WAP, it sits elsewhere in the house. You may be able to power something like one of the Unifi devices, but I have no experience with that.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I tried out RouterOS before, it is powerful but my god is the workflow autistic, it would make Germans jealous

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Yep. It’s the “If you like pain” system. It’s better than it used to be, at least you get a basic setup now instead of having to program everything.

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Can you give me a good example of this?

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Just setting up interfaces alone requires unnecessary steps, instead of just setting up the gateway address/netmask on an interface directly like you would on almost any other firewall, you have to create a subnet/network object in a separate tab and assign that to an interface there, not the worst example but certainly not used to doing it this way.