Hello, Many thanks for all those advices. All of them make sense, but : * An used computer (I have plenty of them) cost 50-100€ a year in power (and is big and heats a lot, but that's not my main concern). * Alix or soekris are nice hardware, but expensive for me. I intend to build a home router to play a bit with networking, not an enterprise grade solution * Raspberry cost 50€ with power adapter, 16 GB SD card and case. I added 15€ for a wifi USB dongle and 20€ for a 802.1q switch. The power adapter is a 5V 1A, so it uses 5W power or less.
TCO on five years : Alix : 200€ hardware (with power supply, CF, WiFi and case), 25€ power = 225€ Used computer from my closet : 0€ hardware, at least 250€ power = 250 € Raspberry : 85€ hardware, 25€ power = 110€ Half price. So I bought a raspberry. I does routing, firewalling, samba PDC with LDAP, DNS and DHCP. The only drawback : I have to use iptables (no need to recompile, works OOTB), and I found its syntax way less pleasant to use than its PF counterpart. Unfortunately, my coding skills are way too limited to try to port OpenBSD... So if nobody around thinks it worth the trouble to do it (with some good reasons I read in this thread), no problem. I'll stick on OpenBSD at work, and play with linux at home. -- Cordialement, Pierre BARDOU De : Andres Genovez [mailto:andresgeno...@gmail.com] Envoyé : mercredi 9 janvier 2013 21:21 À : Gene Cc : BARDOU Pierre; misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 2013/1/9 Gene <gh5...@gmail.com> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Andres Genovez <andresgeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/12/31 BARDOU Pierre <bardo...@mipih.fr> > >> Hello, >> >> I would be very interested by an OpenBSD port too. >> Usage : home router with firewall, DNS and DHCP. >> >> I am looking into FreeBSD and NetBSD ports, but I would prefer to have the >> latest PF and OpenSSH versions... plus I am more used to OpenBSD and I like >> using it :-) >> >> If somebody knows X86 hardware able to do the same (routing/firewlling 20 >> mbps traffic, VLAN, fits in a tiny box, power consumption below 5W, price >> around 50$) as the raspberry I am interested BTW. >> > I am interested too, can somebody give an advice on what hardware to use? > maybe 5 lan or at least two lan? an below 100? > For under $100 USD your best bet is to look for a used computer on craigslist or a yard sale and install another NIC in it. But, this will not get you at 5 watts or less. For under $200 look at either PC Engines ALIX boards or Soekris. eBay has plenty of them. You can manage 5W or less this route. For the Raspberry Pi you will not get OpenBSD. You will have to use Linux and configure it manually, including recompiling the kernel with iptables support. You *might* be able to get under $100, but it won't be under 5 watts and it will be a jalopy. USB ethernet adapters start around $25 new. Thanks, i will look forward those, because a Mikrotik is under 100, and features over 1000. -Gene -- Atentamente Andrés Genovez Tobar / DTIT Elastix ECE - Linux LPI-1 - Novell CLA - Apple ACMT - Mikrotik MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCRE/MTCWE http://www.cspmsa.com
