[PLUG] Small system hardware recommendation

[Larry Brigman]

Back when I was evaluating hardware for a different company we found these
guys.
http://www.win-ent.com/





On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Martin <plugng3 at martinconsulting.com> writes:
>
> Brian> All, I'm looking for a hardware recommendation from fellow
> Brian> Pluggers.  I need an inexpensive, fairly minimal system to run
> Brian> pfSense firewall software.  Something equivalent to Atom
> Brian> processors or better would be fine.  On the order of 512M
> Brian> should meet our needs.  4-5 Ethernet NICs are required to allow
> Brian> multiple ISPs and internal zones.  The device will be installed
> Brian> at a client site, so it needs to have a presentable image
> Brian> rather than look like a science project.  I can get something
> Brian> from Logic Supply for ~$700, but that seems really expensive
> Brian> for what I want.  What's on the market these days that I should
> Brian> consider?
>
> I assume you've looked here:
>
>   https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/index.html#vendors
>
> I don't do pfsense, but it looks like it is x86 only.  If you were
> willing to consider linux instead of bsd, then your options open
> considerably.  If not, stop reading now, partial solutions follow:
>
> Many modern wifi routers are going to have 5 ethernet jacks, which you
> can segment with vlan tagging into seperate networks.  There are
> mostly going to be MIPS architecture, or maybe ARM, but not many in
> the x86.
>
> The pcengines.ch APU (x86) might be worth considering, though it has
> only 3 ethernet interfaces, maybe not enough for you.
>
> I have some mikrotik rb493g boards with 9 gigE jacks (split across 2
> switch chips), 680MHz MIPS cpu, 256Meg RAM, plus three miniPCI sockets
> for adding radios (or ??).  They were circa $175 each.  They run
> OpenWrt.
>
> A Netgear WNDR3800 has the same CPU, with less RAM.  I got some
> recently off ebay for $30+shipping, it is EOL'd since about a year
> ago.
>
>
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