There's also OpenBSD which lends itself very nicely for router/firewall setups.
The Ubiquiti edgemax routers are also pretty nice and cheap, they have a good GUI. I remember also someone here posting how he runs openbsd in the edgemax routers.
The Ubiquiti edgemax routers are also pretty nice and cheap, they have a good GUI. I remember also someone here posting how he runs openbsd in the edgemax routers.
If you're in the Bay, Streakwave (authorized Ubiquiti dealer) is right in San Jose: https://www.streakwave.com/mobile/searchresult.asp?Tp=
(WASD keyboards, makers of the CODE keyboard, are also in the Bay Area and do local pickup as a delivery option!)
I've been quite pleased with the uptime and performance of my little $100 million-packet-per-second router. I used to be a big believer in pfsense, but the ERLite got me to retire that old thing.
It doesn't support "vmware tools" as such, but does support the virtual interfaces for network, disk, ballooning etc...