On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mohan Sundaram <mohan....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 2, 2014 10:17 PM, "Ravi Kumar Tenneti" <rktenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Some of the members who are in Hard ware business (we are also into the >> same but don't know the sources) should find out who are selling in > India >> the Atom boards with 4+ network cards. Some thing like below::; > (reasonable >> pricing) >> >> http://www.hacom.net/catalog/mercury-uno-n270-firewall-appliance >> >> We have raised this sometime back in ILUGC - hoping that somebody will >> inform all the people about this as this is a space which is still void in >> India. The key thing is reasonable pricing - many can import from other >> countries but will work out to be costly. > > These boards run at low volumes and thus are higher priced even abroad than > say routers or PCs. OpenWRT, Tomato and similar firmware is favoured as > they run on common routers like Linksys, Buffalo etc. pFSense does not. It > may be worthwhile to have a project to make it run on such hardware than to > pursue purchase at reasonable price of low volume hardware.
+1 PC Engines has a new board with 3 NICs and 1GB RAM + 1Ghz CPU costs around $150 + shipping + customs. The soekris boards are even more expensive. I have used ATX form factor boards in regular cabinets with 4/5 NICs (depending on PCI or PCI e slots) and get the same effect or perhaps more powerful setup with a high end CPU and more RAM. You can also pick up dual/quad port NICs on ebay.com (go for the buy now option) from $25 to $50. I prefer them as they are system pulls from decommissioned servers in data centers; they are high quality. For small network (< 25 nodes), Atom base boards with USB/RJ45 NICs have also done a reasonable job for a FW+GW setup. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
