On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Diego Barrios <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris, > > I have the same problem here, need a "low-power low-cost" solution like the > excelent Alix board, but with 4 or more 10/100 ports. > > After weeks of research I discovered that there is nothing like the Alix > boards with more ports =/. You can find some good ARM and PPC solutions with > a lot of NICs, but not i386, and unfortunatelly PFsense only runs on Intel > platform. > > Soekris have some good options, they assembly boards (and cases) like Alix, > but with a PCI slot you can plug for example a 4-port PCI NIC on it, the > problem is the price... too high for a SMB solution with a really slow 233mhz > CPU. They have some better CPU but too expensive. > > http://soekris.com/products/net4801-48-bc-lan1641b.html It's very difficult to get any margin on Soekris boards. > The best thing i found was an AAEON (Taiwan) model FWS-2300 with SATA port > (so you can run a proxy for example) and 4 GBIT LAN. > > http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/Network-Appliance-is-designed-for-IDS-IPS-UTM-applications-580284 > > http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Aaeon-FWS2300/ > > This AAEON FWS-2300 costs aproximatelly USD 300 Aaeon also builds some miniPCI 10/100 or 10/100/1000 Ethernet modules. This would require a custom case, but that's approachable. Were I convinced of a market, I'd order several in and take a stab at a prototype case. That would get you to 4 (3x10/100, 1x10/100 or 1x10/100/1000). But you might be pushing $300 and change to get it all together. Jim
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