Still IME best bang for buck is n3160 ATOM based mini-pc's there are several vendors (Jetway/Qotom) and you can get an AES-NI capable 4 core machine with dual NICs that will do 5Gbit Duplex on the nose for less than 90$ USD.
I know intel isn't the flavour of the month, but these machines lack Management Engine or SMT - which at least makes them slightly less dire than more beefy SoC's from Chipzilla. On 26 August 2018 at 23:00, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2018-08-26, Carlos López <carlopm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 26/08/2018 11:46, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: >>> netboot works fine. However almost all of the Arm platforms including >>> the Rpi3 make terrible gateways and in general l3 packet path >>> machines. >>> >>> I have a bunch of various SBC and they all suck pretty bad for network >>> tasks. Fine for random server tasks but don't put them in your network >>> path unless you like artificial bottlenecks. >>> >>> The Machiattobin and/or Espressobin platforms are probably the best >>> for network appliance usage. I haven't got one to see if Openbsd works >>> on them at all tho. >>> >>> >> >> Uhmm ... Interesting point Joel ... Searching both SBC, maybe >> Espressobin is best option than Machiattobin ... >> >> Has anyone tried any of them? > > The MACCHIATObin is listed on arm64.html as having some support, the > ESPRESSObin isn't. > > If ARM isn't an absolute requirement, I think one of the smaller Octeon > machines (probably EdgeRouter Lite or USG) is likely to be a better choice > for your intended use, and may also be easier to buy locally than some of > the ARM development platforms. https://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html > >
