Right.  Adrian said that he was not sure if Gateworks were
supported, so I was just adding my experience.

> On Oct 22, 2015, at 11:21 AM, John-Mark Gurney <j...@funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> Jeff Meegan wrote this message on Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:06 -0700:
>> I have a couple of Gateworks Avila boards that at least boot.
> 
> And only 100mbit ethernet, so failes the gige part of the requirements...
> 
>>> On Oct 22, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The PC engines boards are your best bet to begin with. There's updated
>>> ARM hardware from Gateworks but I don't recall if we ever got a port
>>> fully working on it.
>>> 
>>> On 22 October 2015 at 10:57, John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net 
>>> <mailto:li...@jnielsen.net>> 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)
>>>> - 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.
>>>> 
>>>> I know that might be asking a lot, so I???m also open to any suggestions 
>>>> that are most of the way there. Thanks!
> 
> -- 
>  John-Mark Gurney                             Voice: +1 415 225 5579
> 
>     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."

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