Well guys, tax season has finally hit and I've been able to purchase a 2 port 1gb Intel NIC off of eBay to put in an old Optiplex 7010 that I saved from the dump last year and make the most unnecessarily huge router/firewall ever using OPNsense. Yeah, it would be cool if I had the money to go and get a Protectli Vault or something more new and sleek for this task, but this ancient beast should be more than up to it. I'm super excited to utilize OPNsense outside of a virtualized environment, as previous financial/hardware limitations have prevented, and really dig into this software and learn it's ins and outs.   As per writing this, I am currently waiting for my Network Card in the mail, so I will keep the site up-to-date on my progress as it happens.