On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 08:27:28AM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Constantine A. Murenin [muren...@gmail.com] wrote: > > > > However, if you don't require solid GigE performance, and are looking > > for just 100Mbps routing throughput for a home-router project, my > > advice is to buy a netbook -- they go for 200 to 250 USD nowadays, > > plus an external USB Gigabit Ethernet adapter is 10 to 20 USD. Most > > cheap USB Ethernet adapters are supported nowadays, especially on > > OpenBSD. > > > > A netbook? USB nic? No, that's junk. Sounds like an unreliable recipe for > disaster. Why not just get a Soekris 5501 or a similar PC Engines ALIX, > they can do 100Mbps with the improved vr ethernet driver these days. The PC > Engines is $100 USD and has 3 ethernet ports. PC Engines is coming out > with a new model pcengines.ch/apu.htm that will cost roughly $130-150USD if > you can wait another 3 or 4 months. > > If you don't mind netbooting, you can use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite for $99. > The USB isn't supported yet under OpenBSD. There are probably some viable > armv7 options these days too that might be less than $100.
I don't recommend armv7 for production. Despite of the big efforts of some devs, the platform needs a lot of work and testing. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
