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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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Ubiquity dream machine pro. its 1u, rack mountable and can also run your NVR if you have cameras. Supports gig WAN, 16 gig LAN ports, 2x SFP+ for 10gig cost is ~400

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Now that's what I'm talking about. Thanks, I'll look into that.

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It also runs the Ubiquiti security appliance as well so you can get DPI. If you use Ubiquiti access points it can also manage them (networks/firmwares/etc).

If you want to do VOIP it also has a VOIP appliance that works with their line of VOIP phones.

I have been using one for a while now and had a few issues early on (bought it the week they released it) but after a few patches its been very stable.

I also have it using a dynamic DNS client to update a DNS record on namecheap and I have it running a VPN service so anytime im away from the house I can vpn in from my laptop/phone.

There is plenty more that it can do... I just have not had the time to really get everything I want going yet.

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Unfortunately they're sold out at the moment, but I'll keep that one on my list as a strong contender.