Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:44:31 +0000 From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> To: PicoBSD List <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Hardware?? Message-ID: <3AA6494F.BE06551E@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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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. -Gunther PS: we seem to be a little disadvantaged with FreeBSD not running on MIPS and ARM architectures, 'cause there are lot more extremely small low power boards out there for ARM. But I'm holding on to FreeBSD if I only could finally get 5 to 30 useful boards into my possession. -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist http://aurora.regenstrief.org Regenstrief Institute for Health Care tel:1(317)630-7960 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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