Until recently there has not been ARM hardware that actually has more than two Gigabit Ethernet ports. As of now there are two options:
There’s the Banana Pi R1, which basically is a bigger Banana Pi with 5 Gigabit Ports connected to a Broadcom BCM53125 Switch. The BPI-R1, also called Lamobo R1 is based on an Allwinner A20. There currently seems to be only minimal support for the SoC in OpenBSD. FreeScale has recently been working on ARM-based network chips. They already had QorIQ network chips based on PowerPC and now basically replaced the PPC core with an ARM one, keeping the „old“ peripherals. They are be working on LS1 and LS2 SoCs of varying performance. One of them is a dual-core Cortex A7, another one a Cortex A9, a rather slow ARM11 and even a few ARM 64-bit cores. As far as I know they already supply development boards[0] and reference design[1] hardware for the LS1021A, the dual core Cortex A7. That hardware is really interesting, but rather expensive and not supported by OpenBSD. \Patrick [0] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=TWR-LS1021A [1] http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/quick_ref_guide/LS1021A-IOTGS.pdf On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 10:41:14PM -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I started entertain the idea of getting ARM based hardware for my new > home firewall. > > Are there ARM based consumer motherboards with Gigabit lan controller > which can be used for home firewall hobby project? How close is armv7 or > any other OpenBSD version of being fully functional on such hardware? > > Cheers, > Predrag
