Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 12:20:31 +0930 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slightly OT hardware question Message-ID: <574F9EF7.7070204@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <20160601085243.6c15201e@nunki.holyordnance.org> References: <9971febb-334b-8cb6-170a-6f28d81b4ba9@hiwaay.net> <45833.128.135.52.6.1464193655.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <fa2bfba0-fb60-26ae-22c7-fdb655936b67@hiwaay.net> <20160601085243.6c15201e@nunki.holyordnance.org>
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On 02/06/2016 00:22, Eric S Pulley wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2016 15:00:48 -0453.75 > "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: > >> On 05/25/16 11:33, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 10:51 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>>> Does anyone onlist know of any small (RPi-ish), cheap boxen w/ 2 >>>> or more working RJ45 ports (100 Mbit is OK), FreeBSD or NetBSD >>>> compatible ? I would like to use them as a firewall & an asterisk >>> What I decided to go with is fitlet-i barebone (you will need to >>> bay RAM and mSATA drive for it, otionally their heatsink, which I >>> definitely will get for myself). This brings me in a ballpark of >>> $300 as opposed to $40 for raspberry PI or banana PI barebone, but >>> with fitlet-i I will have two gige ports, and enough CPU power to >>> have it handling decent traffic. (Additional info: AMD SoC CPU, up >>> to 8 GB RAM, made in Israel, or at least by Israeli company; 5 >>> years warranty, available on amazon, power consumption up to 10 W). >>> >>> Just my $0.02 >>> >>> Valeri >>> >>> PS I really would like to hear what others think, and if there is >>> better option than fitlet-i for gige WAN and LAN. >>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> William A. Mahaffey III > > If you are getting into $280+ USD range you may aswell look at Soekris > Engineering. Makers of fine BSD small SBC/routers for many years... Getting a little higher in price, have a look at http://netgate.com Their 2GB ram 2xGbE ports for $299 + 89 or 149 for wifi options. http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-DFF-2220.aspx bsdnow mentioned a blog post about some testing to increase the size of state tables that was done on their 6 port box with 8GB ram http://blog.cochard.me/2016/05/playing-with-freebsd-packet-filter.html -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
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