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something that might be useful to you for that; you can get m.2 slot network adapters which you could use on (some) ITX boards. there's at least 1 & 10gbe ones available.

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Sure. But if you want to actually have two m.2 drives to either mirror your root filesystem or use one as a secondary? It gets tangly quickly.

inb4: CPUs as well as commonly used chipsets have enough lanes, it's not that.

It sounds like you're at the intersection of "tiny", "multiple network ports", "multiple M.2 drives", and "dedicated gpu". I wouldn't be surprised if that's a rare combination.

Could do without the dGPU given APUs. I don't think the rest of that intersection is rare at all for workstations and desktops.

I think a workstation with only one pcie slot is a bit rare?

Either way, if you're using an APU then that frees up an x16 PCIe slot, which on many motherboards can be adapted into 4 M.2 slots. That should get you plenty of networking.

Add 4- or 8-port GbE NIC to PCIe, add 64GB of RAM, add USB stick for router operating system, and you should be able to handle edge traffic for a small office.

What's your goal here??? Multiple NIC in ITX form factor, for what?

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