Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite: coming (hopefully) very soon.

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

On 2013-01-01, at 1:43 AM, Juli Mallett <juli at clockworksquid.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> My EdgeRouter Lite will be arriving soon and I just snagged a copy of
> the GPL sources from Ubiquiti.  Assuming I'm understanding what's here
> right, looks like the EdgeMax platform is Octeon-based, and should
> require only very, very trivial modifications to FreeBSD.  The
> modifications made for linux suggest UBNT calls the board an "E100".
> It's $99 and dual-core CN50xx 500MHz.  A little disappointed it's not
> an Octeon II, but that's hardly surprising.  By far the cheapest
> Octeon system available and perhaps one of the best MIPS ones
> available given the price point.  Should be a lot of fun.
> 
> Note that for reference I know of major OEMs that produce boards with
> comparable specs that were looking for $300 each just a few months
> ago.  These boards are a very fine bargain indeed, and FreeBSD
> supports most of what's on them, and it will only take about 10
> minutes to get a suitable FreeBSD kernel put together with hardware
> in-hand.
> 
> (I may not be able to do it until late January due to other
> commitments, but encourage anyone who has an EdgeRouter Lite in their
> hands to give it a shot.  Just look at the changes Ubiquiti made to
> the Simple Executive to add their private board type, add an
> OCTEON_VENDOR_UBIQUITI (or _UBNT, I'm not picky) config option and add
> the board type and go from there in the same way that other vendors'
> boards have been supported.  It's a great entry-level kernel task.
> The hardware is small and light, so I may take one with me in my
> travels and see what I can find time for, but it'd be very cool to see
> this supported in-tree as soon as possible.)
> 

Looks great! Where do I buy  one?