Our current router is dying for a few years now. Here's what we're looking for:

1. Rack mount, ideally 1U
2. Either a PC (for NixOS) with IPMI or a proper router that won't need to be remote rescued
3. If not a PC must be able to do v4/v6 routing and do BGP/OSPF/ECMP with some sensible buffer sizes and QoS (ie. not a switch). BGP should have a non-shit filter system.
4. Front facing ports
5. Either built-in or expandable to 4xGbE and 2xSFP+ (eg. for a PC a PCIe slot for a ConnectX-6 to get 25G while we're at it)
6. Not a power hog (ie. not an ancient Xeon server)

1. A Mikrotik CCR2004 ; if no better options appear by EOM April q3k will just buy one. It's not a proper router but it's fucking something. And it's certainly better than the courent zombie mode edge01.

1. Supermicro offer: seemingly not updated for edge/appliance stuff, paying full price for 2019 equipment is madness
   1. The only attractive machine is the SYS-510D-8C-FN6P but at 2700€ barebones it's way too fucking expensive for what it is.
2. ASRock Rack offer: nothing compact
3. Lanner offer: 'call us for quote'
4. N210/N100 mini PCs from Aliexpress: no IPMI
5. Aarch64 boxes with NixOS: too experimental/slow and still no IPMI
6. MC12-LE0 mobo: can't find a good rack enclosure for it
7. Old Cisco/Juniper/Arista iron: either expensive, or power hungry, or EOL