Hi Chris,
I have the same problem here, need a "low-power low-cost" solution like the excelent Alix board, but with 4 or more 10/100 ports. After weeks of research I discovered that there is nothing like the Alix boards with more ports =/. You can find some good ARM and PPC solutions with a lot of NICs, but not i386, and unfortunatelly PFsense only runs on Intel platform. Soekris have some good options, they assembly boards (and cases) like Alix, but with a PCI slot you can plug for example a 4-port PCI NIC on it, the problem is the price... too high for a SMB solution with a really slow 233mhz CPU. They have some better CPU but too expensive. http://soekris.com/products/net4801-48-bc-lan1641b.html The best thing i found was an AAEON (Taiwan) model FWS-2300 with SATA port (so you can run a proxy for example) and 4 GBIT LAN. http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/Network-Appliance-is-designed-for-IDS-IPS-UTM-applications-580284 http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Aaeon-FWS2300/ This AAEON FWS-2300 costs aproximatelly USD 300 The old PC is not an option for me due to the power consumption, size, reliability, etc I think we share the same point of view here... we just need an Alix 2D13 but with 5 NICs =| Regards, Seko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bagnall" <pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc> To: "pfSense support and discussion" <list@lists.pfsense.org> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 1:49:45 PM Subject: [pfSense] Low(ish) cost pfSense platforms Greetings list, For many years I've been deploying pfSense on ALIX boards. They've proven to be reliable and a good balance between cost and performance. Price in the UK is about 120 GBP (including PSU and chassis), which means that they're cost-comparable with Draytek's higher end units (which is their primary competition amongst our SME client base). Recently, we've had need to deploy pfSense with more than 3 network interfaces, and unfortunately the ALIX boards seem to top out at 3. A 4-port unit based on the same AMD Geode architecture more than doubles the price to around £250 GBP. Has anyone any suggestions for a 4-port alternative that's closer to the 3-port cost? Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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