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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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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.