Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:27:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT hardware question Message-ID: <45833.128.135.52.6.1464193655.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <9971febb-334b-8cb6-170a-6f28d81b4ba9@hiwaay.net> References: <9971febb-334b-8cb6-170a-6f28d81b4ba9@hiwaay.net>
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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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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