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Thank, Patrick

good morning, I'm inexperienced, to do experiments at home, I'm about to buy a refurbished PC from Amazon just for opnsense.
Since I intend to place it without a monitor, keyboard, mouse or anything else, just the power cable and network, I wanted to ask, when I'm not using it, is it possible to turn it off and on from the power button? does it provide a button controlled shutdown like windows? or do you necessarily have to connect and do some kind of shutdown procedure?....it would be very convenient if it stopped just by pressing the button.

thanks

For a real productive OpnSense, depending on your internet bandwidth and potential applications (zenarmor, VPN or any of that), you need a little processing power. I doubt will find anything useful for <150€ that also is power-efficient. The bare minimum to get would be ~350€ new, so the Deciso models are not overly priced considering they have support and work out-of-the-box.

If you want to experiment first and have a decent NAS or server box with virtualisation, you could probably test with a VM.

thanks, I understand, now I have a clearer picture of the situation, however I wanted to use it as a firewall and anti-intrusion

Between 200 and 250€ you can get a new APU4D4 which would be very energy efficient, guaranteed compatible, but not very powerful. Enough for 100 Mbit/s DSL even with PPPoE but not for Gigabit range speed.

https://www.apu-board.de/produkte/apu4d4.html

Alternatively look for something used on eBay - feel free to come back with a link and ask about compatibility.

Thanks Patrik, I had seen something similar, but I couldn't understand the external case, should it be purchased elsewhere?

If your budget allows it: https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec675-opnsense-desktop-security-appliance/

Cheers
Maurice

thank you very much Maurice, they look wonderful!...but it's way out of budget, I corrected my request, because I realized I forgot to write "that costs as little as possible 80-150 euros")...in the end it's a experiment, then maybe later on, if I feel good, I could invest much more

Good morning everyone, I'm new and inexperienced, I've been repairing and installing photocopiers and printers for 35 years.
I wanted to experiment with opnsense at home to learn how to use it, but I'm struggling to find hardware with the features I'm looking for, even from the supplier of the company I work for.
I'm looking for:
-Fully compatible with opnsense
-very low energy consumption (since it will always be on)
-without fans
-and that it also only has two LAN ports (I can put a switch or use the wind modem ports)
-ideal if you can buy it on Amazon (so I have less hassle)
-that costs as little as possible (80-150 euros)

any solution are accepted

If anyone can help me I would be very grateful

Best regards