Best router appliance with integrated DNS

Hi everyone,

I am (among other things) administrating my company's small network. A
few years ago I configured a Debian box to handle routing, DHCP and
DNS. Thanks to dnsmasq, it was all very easy to setup and it works just
fine. But the computer is getting old and I am the only employee to be
familiar with linux so if something goes wrong when I'm in vacation,
the entire company would be stuck and they would probably blame it on
me using linux :-(

So I'd like to replace the computer with a network appliance that will
be a router and firewall with DHCP and DNS. I'm looking for something
real easy to configure. Typically I imagine a web interface with a
table where, for given MAC addresses, you choose the corresponding
fixed IPs and hostnames. Other machines get a dynamic IP through DHCP.

This sounds like basic networking to me so I'd hope that such an
appliance exists. Do you know any and if you do, which one would you
buy?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Thomas

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