Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 08:52:43 -0600 From: Eric S Pulley <pulley@dabus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slightly OT hardware question Message-ID: <20160601085243.6c15201e@nunki.holyordnance.org> In-Reply-To: <fa2bfba0-fb60-26ae-22c7-fdb655936b67@hiwaay.net> 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>
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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...
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