slightly OT hardware question

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Wed May 25 19:39:56 UTC 2016


On 05/25/16 11:33, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 10:51 am, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> Does anyone onlist know of any small (RPi-ish), cheap boxen w/ 2 or more
>> working RJ45 ports (100 Mbit is OK), FreeBSD or NetBSD compatible ? I
>> would like to use them as a firewall & an asterisk box. I found Utilite,
>> kinda pricey, also Banana-Pi R1 (5 ports, however apparently wired
>> somewhat weirdly on the board, NetBSD networking doesn't work there last
>> I looked). Anyone got a little beastie like this working ? TIA & have a
>> good one.
>>
> I was looking lately for smallish cheepish low power consumption computer
> lately to have it as firewall/router (running pfsense). I ruled out for
> myself raspberryPI, for two reasons: second ethernet adapter on it will be
> USB, the CPU is too weak to run decent firewall/router with decent
> throughput. I took a quick look at Banana PI (just to reconsider my choice
> not that I've heard bout it from you), and I have the same reservations
> about it.
>
> What I decided to go with is fitlet-i barebone (you will need to bay RAM
> and mSATA drive for it, otionally their heatsink, which I definitely will
> get for myself). This brings me in a ballpark of $300 as opposed to $40
> for raspberry PI or banana PI barebone, but with fitlet-i I will have two
> gige ports, and enough CPU power to have it handling decent traffic.
> (Additional info: AMD SoC CPU, up to 8 GB RAM, made in Israel, or at least
> by Israeli company; 5 years warranty, available on amazon, power
> consumption up to 10 W).
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> Valeri
>
> PS I really would like to hear what others think, and if there is better
> option than fitlet-i for gige WAN and LAN.
>
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I agree w/ your points about the RPi networking, that's what put(s) me 
off as well. I'll look at the fitlet-i, thanks :-).

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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	"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.



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