On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:15:04 -0500, David E. Smith wrote:
<snip> >>> > I think on cheap platforms, they have wirespeed gigabit only on switching > functions, but rest will suck. Their top products can do more, but they are > still cannot beat PC with Linux. RB1100, $400 for 150 Kpps with NAT and 300 > Kpps without, it is not that good. atheros ar7161 system on a chip can run as fast as 800mhz has dual gig-e macs and supports 32bit 66mhz pci operation and when coupled with a companion ethernet switch it can result in a fairly hefty little router platform. an example of one would be routerboard 433AH or ubiquiti router-station pro. BOM and flexibility is going to ultimately determine cost but these are substatially more powerful than a lot of smaller embedded platforms we've be using including geode/elan based pc devices. > The only major and important difference in "schematics" with routers that can > be reflashed is flash size and sometimes RAM. 64Mbit SPI flash 2.12$, and > Mikrotik uses this days 512Mbit NAND, $7.01 . ALso they have nice circuits > for variable power, with DC-DC converter, but nothing unusual or innovative, > like Cisco or others has. Before they had some funny circuit with Xilinx FPGA > to run NOR flash over SPI. > Note: DD-WRT on RT305x suck. Their wireless support are incomplete, and no > NAT offload. > > --- > System administrator > Denys Fedoryshchenko > Virtual ISP S.A.L. > >
