On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:05 -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > Well, I would like to see the router board simply because, I would > like to make a router / switch device to replace a Linksys 54G Router, > maybe 3 or 4 lan ports and a 1 or 2 MPCI slots, 1 for hardware crypto > and the other for a wireless device. > > if anyone has any ideas or links that would be great.
The propietor of magicbox.pl, which offers powerpc-based boards, had offered to ship hardware to any and all interested OpenBSD devs; a few confused me as the contact point, so it looks like there was some developer interest in that hardware, but I haven't heard anything since. This was something like a month, month and a half ago; if any dev who contacted that vendor could give a quick "it worked/he was jerking us around" response, I'd love to get an update. Those boards are (unless I'm forgetting) based in the IBM405 chipset; I'd like to see router boards based on the IBM440EBx (again, I may be misremembering), which is supposed to have on-proc crypto support. The only board based on that that I've been able to find in an admittedly short and half-hearted googling was a 5-port w/linux on flash from AMCC. - Bert
