On 2022-11-26 12:14, o1bigtenor wrote:
That's what I have here.  I have a Qotom mini PC, with i5 CPU, 4 GB RAM
64 GB SSD and 4 1 GB Ethernet ports.  I run pfSense on it and have a
managed 8 port Cisco switch.  Works very well.

No router?

I just described it.  A computer, running pfSense is my firewall/router and it's far more capable than any consumer router you're likely to buy.  I have it configured with my main LAN, a VLAN for guest WiFi, test LAN and a connection to my Cisco router.  I also have a DNS resolver and NTP server on it and that's just getting started on what it's capable of.  It can even do routing protocols, such as OSPF and BGP, which can be used between large networks.  In addition to a single IPv4 address, which uses NAT for LAN, I have a /56 IPv6 prefix, which I can split into 256 /64s, each of which contain 2^64 addresses.  I also have OpenVPN running.

https://www.pfsense.org/