ARM board recommendations with true GigE ports

[Russell Haley]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Jim Thompson <jim at netgate.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2017, at 2:03 AM, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> At 05:47 PM 9/22/2017, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> We make a custom product based on the Armada 38xx and it was measured
>>>> at high 900 Mbps using a Buildroot Linux. I want to say 980 but the
>>>> engineer who did the measurements is away so I can't confirm.
>>>
>>> So, if this is a recommended SoC for network-related applications, what commercial boards that use it are recommended? And is there driver support for them in FreeBSD?
>>
>> Armada 38x support landed in the tree a couple months back.
>>
>> Solid-run makes one. Two, actually.
>>
>> We make one.
>>
>> Apparently russ.haley at gmail.com is employed by a company that makes one, though from his description it’s might be an Armada 37x0, and there isn’t any support in the tree for this SoC.
>
> We make a 12 port Vehicle Switch for Train Ethernet Networks. Our
> original prototype testing was done on a Solid-Run Clearfog board (I
> would have told them about NetGate if I had known there was an
> up-coming product at the time we were prototyping). The final product
> is custom hardware.

They won't let me play with one (yet). I desperately want to install pfSense.

> Russ
>
>>>
>>> --Brett Glass
>>>
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