Back when I was evaluating hardware for a different company we found these guys. http://www.win-ent.com/
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Martin <[email protected]> writes: > > Brian> All, I'm looking for a hardware recommendation from fellow > Brian> Pluggers. I need an inexpensive, fairly minimal system to run > Brian> pfSense firewall software. Something equivalent to Atom > Brian> processors or better would be fine. On the order of 512M > Brian> should meet our needs. 4-5 Ethernet NICs are required to allow > Brian> multiple ISPs and internal zones. The device will be installed > Brian> at a client site, so it needs to have a presentable image > Brian> rather than look like a science project. I can get something > Brian> from Logic Supply for ~$700, but that seems really expensive > Brian> for what I want. What's on the market these days that I should > Brian> consider? > > I assume you've looked here: > > https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/index.html#vendors > > I don't do pfsense, but it looks like it is x86 only. If you were > willing to consider linux instead of bsd, then your options open > considerably. If not, stop reading now, partial solutions follow: > > Many modern wifi routers are going to have 5 ethernet jacks, which you > can segment with vlan tagging into seperate networks. There are > mostly going to be MIPS architecture, or maybe ARM, but not many in > the x86. > > The pcengines.ch APU (x86) might be worth considering, though it has > only 3 ethernet interfaces, maybe not enough for you. > > I have some mikrotik rb493g boards with 9 gigE jacks (split across 2 > switch chips), 680MHz MIPS cpu, 256Meg RAM, plus three miniPCI sockets > for adding radios (or ??). They were circa $175 each. They run > OpenWrt. > > A Netgear WNDR3800 has the same CPU, with less RAM. I got some > recently off ebay for $30+shipping, it is EOL'd since about a year > ago. > > > -- > Russell Senior, President > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
