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Looks like a good article to follow. Anyone has recommendations on a small form factor board to get for this project? It appears that the ASRock Mini ITX board in the article is no longer available?

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What people have been using on reddit for pfsense builds.

I saw this today: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/jrlpmy/what_hw_for...

Also I was eyeing this from a few months back: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/review-odyssey-x86j4...

Also this is a good eBay seller which I recommend with some thinclients : https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver

If you are providing a compatible ethernet board as in this writeup, virtually anything you can actually plug the board into will work. Not to imply that OBSD does not support most ethernet, as opposed to WiFi where you might have to be a bit more selective. Here is the list of appropriate WiFi drivers that can be used to make a OBSD based access point:

* https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless

> small form factor board to get for this project?

Have a look at Odyssey by Seeed Studio, I got one for NAS. J4105, 2x Intel NICs, 8GB RAM and DC jack. Pretty good value after erasing Win10.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Odyssey-Blue-J4105-128GB-p-4668....

Pc engines boards are suitable as routers.

Any other ASRock Mini ITX board will do. I'm running FreeBSD router on J3455M, works flawlessly.

Check out the PC Engines APU2. They work very well with OpenBSD. I've been using them for ~8 years.

I'm not sure how they would handle a gigabit. I have 250Mbps and I get 248Mbps with a dozen firewall rules.

I've been running an APU3A4 on a gigabit for the last 3 years. Works just fine.

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