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Figured out the bios password:

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Kilimanjaro1 as per this reference page from STH
Changes I made:
* Disabled the watchdog
* Disabled the virtualization options (intel virtd, VT-d)
* Enabled EIST
* Changed console to 115200

Thanks so much! It looks like that M.2 is indeed an pcie 3.0 x4 (currently populated by a samsung ssd?)

Can I request a picture of the board? This device looks very interesting!
Any idea if how many lanes the M.2 PCIe has? Would love to throw some sfp ports on it.
Thanks

It's tricky to upload a hi-res image. I had to compress it so severely that much of the detail has escaped, but I have now included a shot of the board as well as the back side of the unit.

This looks amazing! Thank you so much!
Are you sure this is a B+M M.2 slot? it looks like an M key slot.
Can you do me another favor and run

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pciconf -lcvto see how many pcie lanes that M.2 slot has?

I will come in with a different opinion: the N100s are not the way to go.
If you are money constrained then ebay is the way to go. Find a C3000 based older appliance: e.g https://www.ebay.com/itm/365297922565 or https://www.ebay.com/itm/356679220079 or https://www.ebay.com/itm/186959526492 etc.
These are still in the sub 20watt idle and goes upto maybe 40 watts on high traffic (obviously higher if you are doing something like ids).
the atom C3000 Denverton based procs are at a sweet spot of high processing power and low used appliance price right now. They still can only handle around 2gb for natting and would not be recommended if you have an isp with >2.5gb download/upload bandwidth.

Having said all that if you can get a ~i3-9100 or 10th gen based equivalent for the same price range I'd take it. It has a similar power usage (30-60 watts) with freebsd depending on the rest of the system.

Might I recommend an Edge 680 available on ebay for pretty cheap if you want to try out quick assist + 10g sfp networks.
See the thread over at serve the home forums
Has the upgraded cpu compared to the qotom (see screenshots).

edit: A cheaper version with 10gb but does not have the high end cpu: https://www.ebay.com/itm/365297922565

Can I request a picture of the board? This device looks very interesting!
Any idea if how many lanes the M.2 PCIe has? Would love to throw some sfp ports on it.
Thanks