[PLUG] Small system hardware recommendation
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Tue Jun 10 04:32:07 UTC 2014
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:46:55AM -0700, Brian Martin wrote:
> order of 512M should meet our needs. 4-5 Ethernet NICs are required to
> allow multiple ISPs and internal zones. The device will be installed at
> a client site, so it needs to have a presentable image rather than look
> like a science project.
Two or more ALIX computers? The ones I know about only have 3 ports,
but could have two or three more with a USB dongle and a PCIE card.
However, that would look kludgy, and 4-5 could turn into 10 ports.
A small stack of ALIX machines, wrapped with a presentable wooden
box with a few blanks filled with wood blocks allowing for future
expansion, might be presentable enough.
A wireless access port running OpenWRT or equivalent would have all
the ports in one box, but it would not have the memory or the OS
flexibility you want. A PC microtower with a 4 port ethernet
card (and room for another) might also work; it would need a
full height PCIe slot. If you bought a couple of those surplus
at ecoBinary, you could have a readily-deployable spare, which
may be important for a mission-critical system.
Keith
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