Constantine A. Murenin [muren...@gmail.com] wrote: > > However, if you don't require solid GigE performance, and are looking > for just 100Mbps routing throughput for a home-router project, my > advice is to buy a netbook -- they go for 200 to 250 USD nowadays, > plus an external USB Gigabit Ethernet adapter is 10 to 20 USD. Most > cheap USB Ethernet adapters are supported nowadays, especially on > OpenBSD. >
A netbook? USB nic? No, that's junk. Sounds like an unreliable recipe for disaster. Why not just get a Soekris 5501 or a similar PC Engines ALIX, they can do 100Mbps with the improved vr ethernet driver these days. The PC Engines is $100 USD and has 3 ethernet ports. PC Engines is coming out with a new model pcengines.ch/apu.htm that will cost roughly $130-150USD if you can wait another 3 or 4 months. If you don't mind netbooting, you can use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite for $99. The USB isn't supported yet under OpenBSD. There are probably some viable armv7 options these days too that might be less than $100.
