Contributed by Dengue on from the embedded dept.
"I'm willing to substitute some routers and firewalls in my environment for some smaller machines, which, in the best case, should have support for flash memoy to accomodate the operating system, maybe an ide controller to handle laptop hd's, support for conventional pc133 dimm memory, boot through the serial port, optional usb, optional mini-pci, at least 2 ethernet ports, a processor which can handle something like 10Mbps under pf/ipf, and, of course, be supported by OpenBSD. Also, it'd be nice if these machines could require at most 20W of power and cost less than $100 (since there are some low-end [closed] routers with a similar configs at $70 in these days). Any hints?"I don't know about meeting that low of a cost point, but I would be interested in similar hardware myself. Has anyone seen anything out there as described?
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By Niall O'Higgins () niallo@netsoc.ucd.ie on http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~niallo
By Niall O'Higgins () niallo@netsoc.ucd.ie on http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~niallo
the emBSD folks recommend it...
By Anonymous Coward () on
http://www.alchemysemi.onr.com/product_info/au1000/index.html
With some external memory it could easily handle a 100Mbps firewall. Unfortunaly I couldn't find any boards using it, and anyway OpenBSD doesn't support MIPS32...
By David () on
By AC () nobody@127.0.0.1 on http://www.pc104.org
In addition, try transmeta.com - look at their SBC products page. Maybe NEC's rather expensive CB56 is close enough?
How about Terrasoft's BriQ?
Maybe look at Motorola's product page (mot.com), and Intel's embedded stuff too (intel.com).
There is a company called EMAC Inc. with some interesting products that may come close to what you want (try using google to search for them). Also try Tri-M Engineering (tri-m.com). EMAC and Tri-M will also do custom boards, just be prepared to cough up lots of cash.
Realistically, you're probably looking at $500.00 per unit _minimum_, for the features you want.
By Anonymous Coward () on
http://www.shuttleonline.com/spec.php3?model=fv24
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