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Nice, I’ve also thought of installing PFsense on it and using it as my home router. But that seems like kind of waste of its potential. It’s perfectly sized for that purpose though.
I’d recommend getting a tiny/1L Dell/HP/Lenovo box and sticking an enterprise grade dual-port NIC from eBay in it instead, if you want a custom router. Mac minis from that production run came with gigabit, and you had to specifically option a 10G NIC (read: they’re harder to find and generally more expensive), and even then you only get a single port.
I'll check it out, I do have something on hand though that I'm thinking of going with. As any self respecting "computer guy" I have waaay too many towers around the house and am right now planning to try to use an optiplex 5040 MT as a proxmox box running a pfsense VM and maybe some storage too.
EDIT: Fixed some typos/grammar