Dave Taht via Cerowrt-devel <[email protected]> wrote: > https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/05/06/lichee-pi-4a-risc-v-sbc-raspberry-pi-4-th1520-processor/
} Sipeed has just started taking orders for the Lichee Pi 4A (8GB RAM + 8GB } flash) for $119.00 on Aliexpress, and the 16GB RAM version is scheduled for } next month. Additional information can be found on the product page. It's quite a lot of computer. The price is not great, but if it's a Gb/s fq_codel box you want, then it's probably fine. I don't really like the small form factor as a home router, btw: the cables will be heavier than the box, and it will all fall on the floor behind the TV, where it will gather dust :-) I'd want a big hunk of steel that would stay where I put it, and I'm okay if it also dissipates some heat. Five years ago, I built a dozen OrangePIZero's with two extra USB ethernets in a 3D printed box. So, a total of three ethernets. I meant to build a hundred of them. The most complex topology one can build with two ethernets is a circle. Three ethernets opens one up to all sorts of trees, etc. This was for RFC8994 testing. So I continue to look for ~$20 boxes that could easily do more than two ethernets. I don't need high speed, but it's nice to have. I do need auto-MDX, which GbE PHYs all offer. One reason I didn't proceed was that I still haven't gotten beyond what I can do in VMs. (i.e. my software is not ready) At the time, OpenWRT did not do well with the various switch-port extensions that got one 4-5 ethernets: they were will custom jobs, but now they are mostly all do DSA, so a 12-port Zyxel would seem to satisfy my needs. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | IoT architect [ ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
