Sorry, I forgot to mention that the reason we want the extra NICs is so
we can avoid the purchase/installation of a small switch.
On 09/01/11 08:24, Douglas Pickett wrote:
Frank,
While not the choice for a really high throughput situation, I recently
was setting up a pair of pfSense firewalls with CARP in a big hurry. I
was finding it difficult to find multi-port Ethernet cards and PC's that
would hold them on short notice.
I ended up setting up pfSense using VLAN's - the one gigabit Ethernet
interface on the PC was plugged into one port of an 8 port managed
switch (I used the HP 1810G-8), and a different VLAN was then mapped to
each of the remaining 7 ports. This mapping turned the tagged packets
used on the VLAN port back into untagged packets that regular devices
understand. Instant 7 port Ethernet "card".
The disadvantage of this is that the aggregate speed of the system is
only 1G (well, 2G when you think of full duplex) - but since few of us
have an Internet connection anywhere close to 1G it seemed like a good
trade off.
It is an option in a situation where the host system supports VLAN's,
and you have at least 1 Ethernet port.
Regards,
Doug.
On 01/09/2011 7:35 AM, Frank Bax wrote:
On 08/31/11 20:56, Duane at e164 dot org wrote:
Yajie wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone played with the following single board computer (SBC)
with Asterisk and Freepbx?
1. Soekris serious.
2 . Metrix PBX I Kit,
3. PIKA and WRAP on PCengines.com (End of life??)
4. Any other platforms.
Asterisk (but no codec conversion) will run on openwrt etc, long list of
routers on the openwrt/ddwrt etc websites.
I also just came across this site by accident:
http://www.fit-pc.com
8W atom based computer with 1-2G of ram
Another alternative is the 7" Eeepc netbooks, they chew about 5W of
power and can be grabbed off ebay for about $100 second hand.
I'd be interested in what you end up deciding on as I am looking for
something similar.
Does anyone have additional suggestions for this type of system with 4
or more NICs included? We are not looking for off-the-shelf routers; but
rather small computers that we will configure as routers. Perhaps
something like (cannot find a supplier for this one):
http://www.lannerinc.com/Embedded_Computing/All-Purpose_Box_Computers/LEC-2126
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