Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:50:20 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slightly OT hardware question Message-ID: <d4d5aaa3-6787-c6ee-0ed4-305b22af427f@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20160601085243.6c15201e@nunki.holyordnance.org> References: <9971febb-334b-8cb6-170a-6f28d81b4ba9@hiwaay.net> <45833.128.135.52.6.1464193655.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <fa2bfba0-fb60-26ae-22c7-fdb655936b67@hiwaay.net> <20160601085243.6c15201e@nunki.holyordnance.org>
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On 06/01/16 09:58, Eric S Pulley wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2016 15:00:48 -0453.75 > "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: > >> 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 > If you are getting into $280+ USD range you may aswell look at Soekris > Engineering. Makers of fine BSD small SBC/routers for many years... > _______________________________________________ > 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" Found them earlier, looked like more $$$$ than I wanted to commit, but also looked like top-shelf equipment, already had/has FreeBSD 9.nR compatibility. I might be back .... -- 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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