Which single-payer to choose for the gateway?

Question

Iron

For a home network, I would like something with at least three, and preferably four, ethernet interfaces on board and enough wi-fi to cover an average apartment. At the same time, I would like to be able to install something like debian there.
Such a need arose to run network filters and adequate network configuration.

Answer 1

Any itx motherboard with a soldered processor and a four-port network card. Wifi is better to do separately, and not on Linux.

Answer 2

Choose this
https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-3100.html
The iron is specially sharpened for routing, and a huge plus is that in fact it is a regular freebsd

Answer 3

take this
https://mikrotik.ru/katalog/katalog/hardware/route...
or this
https://mikrotik.ru/katalog/katalog/hardware/switc...
costs RouterOS, no worse than debian.

four ethernet interfaces

and you have enough 4 holes for the whole apartment then?

Answer 4

There are boards for embedding with a bunch of ports like
https://aliexpress.ru/item/32999171046.html
https://aliexpress.ru/item/4001200065022.html
an intel processor, so theoretically you can install any OS
Of course, there are ready-made devices https: //aliexpress.ru/item/32825684280.html See
the prices yourself, I brought the first available links to make it clear what I'm talking about.