On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 03:58:31PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Hello Hendrik, > > > Le 1 janvier 2002 à 09:33, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> a écrit : > [snip] > > I need file server and network front end. At present they are the same > > machine, but that is not at all necessary. > [snip] > > > > But I'd rather not have intel hardware facing the net, given known and > > potential vulnerabilities in the management engine. > > > > Rumour has it that AMD has something similar, though I don't know the > > details > > and havent heard of any actual attacks -- yet. > > > > So I've been wondering about ARM machines. Perhaps as network front ends, > > with > [snip] > > > > But I suspect there may sell be machines that will serve as internet front > [snip] > > > > I'd want them to have at least two ethernet ports, one to the world and one > > to > [snip] > > as I choose. Ideally it could boot from USB so I coud easily reinstall or > [snip] > > > > Anyone know of suotable hardware? > > The first thing that came to my mind was PCengines. They have some > boards with multiple RJ-45, USB bootable > (http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm or > http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1d4.htm, for example). Alas, I thought > they were ARM, but they are AMD. I can't help mentioning them > anyway. > > Good luck in your search. I'd be interested in knowing what you go with.
Interesting. They would, at least, provide one level of defense against such attacks. And if their processors are old enough, they may not have whatever AMD uses instead of the Intel Management Engine. The company that sells these machines seems also to sell an enclosure and provide a heat spreader that I'd have to install myself. But its boot process seems to require me to access the machine with a serial terminal. Those things are getting scarce. My laptop, for exampe, doesn't even have a serial port to connect a null modem to. I've heard of a thing called an ARM with two networks. There are a few such components advertised on the net. But the ones I found seem to be bare single-board computers without power supply or case, unlikely to survive on its own in an overcrowded house. Otherwise promising. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
