Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:16:21 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Miroslav Chlastak <miroslav.chlastak@anthill.cz> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM platform for network router Message-ID: <20140310191621.GB65259@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <D3FA6897-5DC5-4969-8000-D238E4FB66AE@anthill.cz> References: <D3FA6897-5DC5-4969-8000-D238E4FB66AE@anthill.cz>
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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. 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. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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