I really, really love these machines. I'm using one with OPNsense myself. They're just fast enough to get gigabit throughput, but no faster (or more power hungr

I really, really love these machines. I'm using one with OPNsense myself. They're just fast enough to get gigabit throughput, but no faster (or more power hungry). Personally I like to separate switching from the firewall and so I've got everything attached to an unmanaged switch or a Unifi AP. My one complaint about this approach is that there are so many interactions happening at the software level that any time I set up a network stack, I always feel as though the whole thing is very fragile and only works because everything is precisely configured. Since I like to tinker, I want a system that feels more reliable, and so I go for the router-in-a-box approach of pfsense or opnsense. I wish it was easy to get a network configuration that "just works".