From owner-freebsd-small Wed Mar 7 15:52:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from cdc.net (server1.cdc.net [207.244.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F413837B71B for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwade@cdc.net) Received: (qmail 19077 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 23:50:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO net-ninja.com) (207.244.6.200) by server1.cdc.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 23:50:30 -0000 Received: by net-ninja.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FD966E8D0; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:50:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by net-ninja.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA30176020; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:50:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:50:28 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Wade X-Sender: mwade@net-ninja.com To: Gunther Schadow Cc: PicoBSD List Subject: Re: Hardware?? In-Reply-To: <3AA6494F.BE06551E@aurora.regenstrief.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote: > Hi, I have set up my own customized PicoBSD VPN routers with all the > bells and whistles that I need. What I am having problems with is the > hardware side. I am desperately waiting for someone to deliver boards > that he had announced late last year, but there seem to be problems. > Meanwhile my project comes up to deadlines and I have a hard time > waiting. I need a small size low power (simple wall AC adapter) box > that essentially contains 2 (better 3) ethernet interfaces and a > sio for console, I don't want any of this video and keyboard and > sound gimmick that I can't use, that only drives up the price and > power consumption. I cannot find anything like it in the whole world > so it seems. You're happy to have one built-in ethernet, one vendor > left with two, and complete loss with three. The other problem, nowhere > can you opt in for ethernet *and* opt out of VGA. > > Does anyone know anything better? I would especially appreciate to > be directed to a specific product, I know that there are certain > vendors and web sites that come close, but having looked at all this > I cannot find anything that really fits. > > I appreciate any help. I'm also looking for similar hardware. I've prototyped a product I've designed using the FreeBSD kernel and development tools on the NC series of NetPCs from "http://www.flytech.com.tw/". Now I'm ready to move on but I'm still without low cost embedded x86 boards with 2-3 10/100bT ports + flash. --- Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net) Chief Technical Officer CDC Internet, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message