On 6/24/20 11:58 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2020-06-23, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote:
<snip>
Have a look through https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/embedded/servers /
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/embedded/rackmount and you'll find
quite a few things that give the perception "solid custom network device"
rather than either "repurposed server" or "cisco junk, well past it's
sell-by date, <$100 on ebay" - things like these
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/1U/1019/SYS-1019D-FRN8TP.cfm
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/1U/5019/SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP.cfm
(some equipment from other vendors will fit the bill too, but supermicro is
a lot easier to buy from than portwell etc).
I agree totally here with Stuart! In the past I have built a router
using a SuperMicro 4U chassis with Xeon E5 cpu.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/chassis/4U/842/SC842TQC-668B
Originally OpenBSD didn't support the RAID controller so I used the root
backup cron dd script. Everything else was fine however, and it's
performance has been incredible with the only downtime being during
maintenance periods -> transitioning to new version of 'Current'.
Consequently it is tied to a Cisco router :-)
That is really only to bridge the VDSL2 line to Ethernet -
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1483
Another option depending on availability could be Jetway -
http://www.jetwayipc.com/product-category/emb-board-en/embedded-x86-en/mini-itx-en/
https://www.jetwaycomputer.com/
Example (yes they do look like vendor based network equipment and not
rack mount servers):
https://www.jetwaycomputer.com/1U-Rackmount-Barebones.html
One common place for their availability is the Mini-ITX store:
https://www.mini-itx.com/store/category?type=motherboard&jetway=1&maxram=4GB-or-more&lan-ports=from-1&storage-ports=from-1&sortby=price&page=1
I don't have experience with them in general but if OpenBSD works well
on them they could become a really big game changer.
Regards,
Kaya
