Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:49:22 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Miroslav Chlastak <miroslav.chlastak@anthill.cz>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ARM platform for network router Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomijHem3MYY2R46a9eX3Kawpk8upCuYKjd4TEBNO%2BUKiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140310191621.GB65259@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <D3FA6897-5DC5-4969-8000-D238E4FB66AE@anthill.cz> <20140310191621.GB65259@cicely7.cicely.de>
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On 10 March 2014 12:16, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:50:31PM +0100, Miroslav Chlastak wrote: >> Hello, >> >> is there any box like ???alix/wrap boards???, that can be uset as router with ARM CPU? We are looking for a new platform with more power instead of Alix board. But every i386 platform is too expensive (when comparing to eg. routerboard). > > Take a look at the MIPS mailinglist. > IIRC some people have FreeBSD running on routerboard hardware. > And some even cheaper TP-Link (and noname) (mostly) Atheros based > router hardware works fine. > Most of them have small flash based filesystem space, but as many > have USB you can run a full featured FreeBSD by using USB drives. > Beside having an USB port you wan to look for at least 32MB or 64MB RAM. > For example the carambola 2 using AR9331 with 64MB RAM runs fine, but > unfortunately 8devices only wired 2 ethernet ports from the internal switch. > The Atheros chip itself has 2 NIC, with one connected to an internal > 5-port VLAN capable switch. > Last time I've checked however FreeBSD had no support to configure the > internal switch however. We can configure the internal switch now. I haven't tested vlangroup support on arswitch but it is supposed to work. > But you can get countless boards using this and other supported Atrheros > chips, just watch out for RAM, as there are boards with 8 and 16MB RAM > only. > Even without support to configure the switch you have 2 individual NIC. .. and I'll fix the arswitch problems if I can get hardware to test it out with. -a
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