Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 15:00:48 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT hardware question Message-ID: <fa2bfba0-fb60-26ae-22c7-fdb655936b67@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <45833.128.135.52.6.1464193655.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <9971febb-334b-8cb6-170a-6f28d81b4ba9@hiwaay.net> <45833.128.135.52.6.1464193655.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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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 box. I found Utilite, >> kinda pricey, also Banana-Pi R1 (5 ports, however apparently wired >> somewhat weirdly on the board, NetBSD networking doesn't work there last >> I looked). Anyone got a little beastie like this working ? TIA & have a >> good one. >> > I was looking lately for smallish cheepish low power consumption computer > lately to have it as firewall/router (running pfsense). I ruled out for > myself raspberryPI, for two reasons: second ethernet adapter on it will be > USB, the CPU is too weak to run decent firewall/router with decent > throughput. I took a quick look at Banana PI (just to reconsider my choice > not that I've heard bout it from you), and I have the same reservations > about it. > > 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 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war >> ever devised by man." >> -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" OK, I'm on their site now, looks sweet. They only mention linux, FreeBSD and/or NetBSD compatible ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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