For servers there are passive cooled n100 variants on Aliexpress with multiple Intel i226 2.5GE network interfaces. We benchmarked them - they are able to serve line rate on all interfaces with a few routing/firewall routes. We bunkered a few of them in case we have a serve emergency situation - this allows us to setup infrastructure in zero time.
The next bigger variant (n305) is getting too hot - but at that point I'd start looking into variants which use an AMD notebook CPU.
For servers there are passive cooled n100 variants on Aliexpress with multiple Intel i226 2.5GE network interfaces. We benchmarked them - they are able to serve line rate on all interfaces with a few routing/firewall routes. We bunkered a few of them in case we have a serve emergency situation - this allows us to setup infrastructure in zero time.
The next bigger variant (n305) is getting too hot - but at that point I'd start looking into variants which use an AMD notebook CPU.