Nice to be of your help.

How’s OpenWRT to use and install. Though pretty experienced with linux. This is the first time trying to do the hardcore networking stuff.

It has intel graphics.

That is a cool idea, perhaps a project of router thing doesn’t work out.

I read on OPNSense guide it needs 2gb ram to run, it would be difficult to even get a 1gb ram for it. Not to say expensive too.

I have an old Raspberry Pi as PiHole and another Pihole running on as a virtual machine. I have an ryzen PC running as a NAS and Jellyfin.

I was trying to get a half decent PC to make a firewall router out of.

Thanks i was planning to put OpenWRT or DD WRT on it ditching Windows XP

I have a Realtek and an intel NIC which I have not tried. Both are PCI. I am more worried about software, OpenWRT or DDR WRT work with it.

People are still buying EA shit.

Maybe do a cmos reset

One laptop, 2 ssd, 4 Proxmox lxcs, 3 docker containers, 2 routers.

That happens to me too but if I scroll ahead and then back it corrects sometimes.

You can use cockpit which is a lightweight server management software, uses extensions for increasing capabilities.