Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:57:52 -0600 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: looking for suggestions for a small router/appliance board/SoC Message-ID: <2EB47812-4744-48B5-BEBF-B2074D9EEA8F@jnielsen.net>
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Hi- I’m working on a proof-of-concept for a kind of networking swiss army knife. Can anyone suggest a board that meets the following requirements? CPU arch doesn’t matter as long as it will run FreeBSD (Atom, ARM, MIPS, etc). - Small form factor (SoC, probably) - Can support at least 2 802.11a/b/g/n adapters, prefer 3 (any combination of chip-integrated and mini PCI-e slots. Prefer to avoid USB if possible) - Has or supports at least 2 1GbE ports. Prefer 3-5 ports with switching functionality - Storage not super constrained. Built-in storage (if any) can be small (which I’m arbitrarily defining as less than 128MB) if there is also an SD card slot or similar. USB storage will do in a pinch. - Has at least 2 free USB ports after meeting previous requirements - Serial port or header (or GPIO pins that can be used as one? Not too familiar with that) - Low power consumption (within reason taking the above into account) - Low cost (again, within reason) I may just start with a PC Engines apu1d, but if there are boards that are smaller, cheaper, have lower power requirements and/or have integrated wifi or switch capabilities I’d like to look in to them as well. I know that might be asking a lot, so I’m also open to any suggestions that are most of the way there. Thanks! JN
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