Hardware recommendations for small and energy efficient Gateway

[Dustin Marquess]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 1:13 AM Christoph Harder <shadowomf at arcor.de> wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
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> I'm planning to set up multiple Gateways (for routing, as firewall and IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN). Does anyone have recommendations regarding the hardware, especially in regards to power consumption?
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> I would definitly prefer an AMD based solution (the last time I've had an Intel Processor was when MS DOS was still around).
> Since I plan to use it as Gateways for my parents and family it shouldn't be too expensive (if possible below 300€ for the hole system), while also not increase the electricity bill to much (as you may know electricity in Europe is quite expensive).
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> I've found the Biostar A10N-8800E V6.1 Mainboard with integrated processor. Has anyone ever used it with DragonflyBSD? Can you recommend it and does it work with DragonflyBSD?
> Do you have any better suggestions?

Personally, for this stuff, I'm a total fan of the PC Engines
hardware, they have a few decent models:

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

It's small-ish, low power, etc.

-Dustin