Excelent information Jim!
Can you confirm if these chipsets are compatible with PFsense 2.0.1 ? http://www.tri-m.com/products/aaeon/files/specs/perc20u10l_spec.pdf Do you know if it comes with cable to provide the RJ-45 female interface? Regards, Seko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Thompson" <[email protected]> To: "pfSense support and discussion" <[email protected]> Cc: "ignacio" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 8:58:33 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense] Low(ish) cost pfSense platforms 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. <blockquote> 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 </blockquote> 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 _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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