I have one of those. Ran pfSense on it for 9 months and worked great, until one of the built-in NICs died.
I've since repurposed the system as a Xen host, the last NIC hasn't died yet, but I can't really recommend it. -Gene On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Chester T. Field < chester.t.fi...@hushmail.com> wrote: > The lovable scamp Ted Unangst posted about a box with dual broadcoms, Atom > CPU, DDR3 RAM, etc for $129 on his blog: > > http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/new-home-router > > -Chester > > "Enjoy those tacos now, for in a thousand years they will be illegal! Ha > ha ha ha-I think we all know why." - Benjamin Franklin > > On 12/3/2014 at 11:09 AM, "Gene" <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> This is very interesting - I've been looking at various small > >boxes > >> like this to use as a home firewall. > >> The only problem is that not many of them have 2 NICs, and the > >ones > >> that do are very expensive (higher end Zotac) > >> > >> Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be > >> suitable as a home firewall? > >> > > > >Look into the PC Engines ALIX and APU system boards. You can get > >kits for > >under $200, or sometimes for less on eBay. > > > >http://www.pcengines.ch > > > >Great hardware. I have a couple of the ALIX boards. The APU > >series has > >gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the > >mailing list > >you'll see several mentions for it. > > > > > >> What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is > >there an > >> OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... > >> > > > >-Gene > >(p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists and didn't reply all last time, I > >apologise > >for emailing you twice, Alan).
