Do the 1Gb interfaces support real 1Gb/sec? I know there was some arm h/w with 1Gb interfaces that would not run at 1Gb speed.
diana On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Patrick Wildt wrote: > Until recently there has not been ARM hardware that actually has more > than two Gigabit Ethernet ports. As of now there are two options: > > Thereâs the Banana Pi R1, which basically is a bigger Banana Pi with > 5 Gigabit Ports connected to a Broadcom BCM53125 Switch. > > The BPI-R1, also called Lamobo R1 is based on an Allwinner A20. > There currently seems to be only minimal support for the SoC in > OpenBSD. > > FreeScale has recently been working on ARM-based network chips. > They already had QorIQ network chips based on PowerPC and now > basically replaced the PPC core with an ARM one, keeping the âoldâ > peripherals. > > They are be working on LS1 and LS2 SoCs of varying performance. > One of them is a dual-core Cortex A7, another one a Cortex A9, > a rather slow ARM11 and even a few ARM 64-bit cores. > > As far as I know they already supply development boards[0] and > reference design[1] hardware for the LS1021A, the dual core Cortex A7. > > That hardware is really interesting, but rather expensive and not > supported by OpenBSD. > > \Patrick > > [0] > http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=TWR-LS1021A > [1] > http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/quick_ref_guide/LS1021A-IOTGS.pdf > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 10:41:14PM -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> I started entertain the idea of getting ARM based hardware for my new >> home firewall. >> >> Are there ARM based consumer motherboards with Gigabit lan controller >> which can be used for home firewall hobby project? How close is armv7 or >> any other OpenBSD version of being fully functional on such hardware? >> >> Cheers, >> Predrag
