Jona Joachim wrote: > Thank you very much for the write-up! I'm looking into buying hardware > to build a small OpenBSD home router and this looks interesting. > You say that the machine will not be able to serve as an IPSEC gateway. > Is that when you consider Gigabit ethernet or do you think that even a > 10 Mbit connection will require too much computational power to do > IPSEC on this machine?
For comparison, md5 -t: Time = 2.198556 seconds Speed = 45484399.760570 bytes/second I don't use IPsec, and I notice that Ubiquiti don't mention it as a selling point for the device. I would probably not use the edgerouter for anything too far outside what the adverising materials say (just running openbsd instead). > You also mention the usb driver which is not so reliable. I don't see a > USB port on the machine. Is this an internal bus? I would be interested > to use it with hostapd with a usb wifi nic. The flash storage inside is attached via USB. As for power, it's a 12W supply. I'll have to hook it up to a meter and measure. Update on that later. I would say it's an interesting alternative if you're specifically looking for a non-PC router. I'm not sure it's the best router platform in general.
