Building a router / firewall - form factor/chassis pls?

that was a bit convoluted heres the TLDR:

>onboard GB ethernet
> space for 2 PCI cards
> Fanless
> smallish form factor (SFF or lower)

Thanks anons.

bumping for interest.

Sounds like you're looking for a Proliant microserver (Gen 8)

2 GB ethernet ports out of the box, a PCI slot, pretty small, only about $200

It's not fanless, but not loud enough that you'd really notice.

Honestly just get another shitbox if you're not too worried about power

> cheap
> enough CPU grunt
> pci(-e) slots

>>62438997
PC engines APU

>>62440139
>PC engines APU
thnx anon, they look excellent. Though I'm a bit nervous about embedded system. I'll be running node.js on it as well. I think I want something x86/x64. Will an embedded chip limit the code that I can run on it? I'm guessing yes?

Very very nice choice though, and on eBay for fifty quid.

>>62439962
>Sounds like you're looking for a Proliant microserver (Gen 8)

thanks anon, looks a bit overkill though and more than I want to spend.
Also it will be about five yards away from my couch - needs to be quiet and a bit smaller.

Thanks for the tip tho - nice system, good management tools especially.

>>62439985
>Honestly just get another shitbox

yeah, its weird though - absolutely nothing on ebay right now in the UK from what I can see. I think if I wait a week or two a reseller should probably dump some old office stock.

The last one I got was about £70 and it came with a WIndows 7 Pro licence. That's the sweet spot. I already have the PCI GB ethernet and Wireless cards to swap in so if I see something like thats probs what I'll go for again.

Core 2 Duo machines are fucking excellent lightweight servers - quiet as mice and solid as rocks.

>>62440615
It uses an amd cpu.
It's x86.

>>62440662
Get one of those Chinese pfsense chassis from AliExpress