On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:08:10PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > 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.
Slightly off-topic: Ubiquiti released recently a new router named EdgeRouter X. 49 USD, 5 gigabit ports, 5W, dual-core 800Mhz, 256MB. It's a MIPS32, so if some developer is looking for a new platform for OpenBSD... :P . The processor is licensed from Imagination, which I guess that is more open than Cavium. I have not found a dmesg yet. http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_X_DS.pdf http://www.embeddeddeveloper.com/cores/documents/MIPS32_1004K_rev1.pdf -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
