> On Oct 22, 2015, at 12:57 PM, John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi- > > I’m working on a proof-of-concept for a kind of networking swiss army knife. > Can anyone suggest a board that meets the following requirements? CPU arch > doesn’t matter as long as it will run FreeBSD (Atom, ARM, MIPS, etc). > > - Small form factor (SoC, probably) > - Can support at least 2 802.11a/b/g/n adapters, prefer 3 (any combination > of chip-integrated and mini PCI-e slots. Prefer to avoid USB if possible)
I openly question your need or the desirability for 3 802.11 adapters. It can be made to work, but you’re going to have some intermod. > - Has or supports at least 2 1GbE ports. Prefer 3-5 ports with switching > functionality > - Storage not super constrained. Built-in storage (if any) can be small > (which I’m arbitrarily defining as less than 128MB) if there is also an SD > card slot or similar. USB storage will do in a pinch. > - Has at least 2 free USB ports after meeting previous requirements > - Serial port or header (or GPIO pins that can be used as one? Not too > familiar with that) > - Low power consumption (within reason taking the above into account) > - Low cost (again, within reason) > > I may just start with a PC Engines apu1d, but if there are boards that are > smaller, cheaper, have lower power requirements and/or have integrated wifi > or switch capabilities I’d like to look in to them as well. you can probably get APU in low-volume, but quantity is very constrained these days (it’s been true all year). We do have the RCC-VE and RCC-DFF units available. http://store.netgate.com/Desktop-Systems-C83.aspx Jim _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
