[email protected] said: > I think of creating a simple router for home use with NetBSD. Just for fun. > I imagine a single board printed circuit with passive cooling, with 2+ 100+ > Mbit/s ethernet ports and maybe a vga port too. A Raspberry Pi sort of > thing, but maybe not exactly that.. Hmm, some olimex board might be nice > maybe..
> Can someone give me an advice wrt. which HW to buy so that it will happily > run some of the recent NetBSD releases? The low cost approach is to plug a USB Ethernet adapter into something like a Raspberry Pi. That may not be good enough if you are after high throughput but it's probably good enough since you only asked for 100 megabit. There are quite a few Mini-ITX boards with 2 LANs. But then you have to get RAM, disk, and a case so the total price won't be cheap. For more info, google for >Mini-ITX dual LAN<. They are mostly "real" PCs with typical IO connectors. The LANs will probably be gigabit. They will be good for a lot more than just a home router. They will run a lot cooler if you get a case that stands up on its side. You can also add a tiny fan that makes almost no noise except during the first few seconds during boot. SSDs will run cooler. Another approach is to plug a PCI Ethernet card into a old PC if you have one that is quiet enough. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.
