Hi, I'm using PC Engines for years. I have many of them. I want to buy more, but they are not available on their main web site. I'm still planning to buy them the moment they will show up on https://www.pcengines.ch/order.htm
However, after many weeks of waiting, I finally reached a point, when I need to look for alternatives, as few of my hobbyist projects and plans are on-hold for too long. I'm looking for something similar like PC Engines APU board. Preferably 4 network cards, 4GB of RAM, low power consumption, no graphic card, serial console access, suitable for wired and Wi-Fi and/or LTE router, based on OpenBSD. To give you an example, I have or had in the past, PC Engines with OpenBSD as: - plain simple Ethernet router - fiber + Ethernet router - Wi-Fi access point via Ethernet uplink - Wi-Fi access point via LTE modem uplink - WireGuard, OpenVPN endpoint - DNS, DHCP, TFTP and PXE server - print server and scanner via CUPS and SANE - HTTP server, plus some automation daemons Very typical stuff, nothing unusual I would say. I usually duplicate above setups in various locations, like family house, relatives, and my own place, but.. I run out of simple and reliable hardware to run it on, hence this post. I don't want to run full blown PC, because of electricity consumption and graphic card. In case of kernel panic() I want to have a system with serial console, by design on motherboard, not something additional. >From architecture perspective I think most practical is amd64, but maybe well supported arm64 would do. If you want to put RPi in the picture, I don't think about it, as it has only one Ethernet interface. PS: Please CC me in any replies. -- Regards, Mikolaj
