Firewall Micro Appliance VPN Router Mikrotik Pfsense Network Security Industrial Mini PC with 4X Gigabit Intel LAN Ports J1900 4G RAM 32G SSD I5

I've only had this for a day so I can't speak to durability, but it seems like a great device so far. I'm running the VyOS Linux-based router distribution on it, which I've been using for about a decade on various computers and embedded hardware. This was easy to setup and works fine. There were a few catches though, so for the benefit of anyone else:- It came pre-loaded with pfSense, but NO documentation at all aside from a warranty card.- The "SW" button on the front is the power button. You need to press it to turn the device on, and I'd be careful as it looks like it will be pretty easy to accidentally press it to turn the device off.- At first it wouldn't boot my USB flash drive. I needed to use Delete to get into the BIOS (pressed repeatedly as fast as you can), then navigate to Chipset -> South Bridge -> USB Configuration and then disable XHCI and enable USB 2.0 (EHCI)- By default the BIOS is set to stay powered off after power loss. This can be changed with Chipset -> South Bridge -> Restore AC Power Loss- The numbering of the interfaces on the front of the enclosure is opposite how Linux (using old-style / non-persistent interface names) detects them; the leftmost interface labeled "LAN4" is eth0 and the rightmost interface labeled "LAN1" is eth3There are a few quirks that some documentation could've helped, but overall it seems well-made and stable so far, and relatively easy to get up and running.

I'm pretty happy with this overall, however it took me a while to upgrade pfsense. It came with an old preinstalled version of pfsense. I tried to boot from USB stick that was 8GB and it wouldn't boot. I debugged for a while to determine that the BIOS wouldn't read any USB device > 2GB. Fortunately I had a 2GB USB stick and was able to install a newer pfsense version. There may be a UEFI setting in BIOS that I didn't adjust properly but I was unable to get it to boot. Aside from this the system runs great.

Unit works great! I loaded Debian and bonded the interfaces into bridge groups for use with tcconfig to emulate network performance problems. It flows 1gbps of iperf traffic with low CPU utilization too.