Re: Routerboards (was: Re: Routerboard 532 Bounty)

[Jonathan Towne]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:44:10AM -0400, Bret Lambert scribbled:
# So, a question to the list: besides soekris and WRAP boards (and the
# specific board that began the thread), what tiny, non-PC machines are
# out there and useful?

I've been in contact for some time with the folks at AR Infotek in
Taiwan.  They're exceedingly nice people and offer some very cool
products.  I'm trying to get ahold of a small pile of their 3258-245
model to use as OpenBSD+carp firewalls and routers.

The main issue with them is that they aren't a distributor of their
product; they mainly sell to system integrators and the like.  They do
sell in small quantities for evaluation purposes, and OpenBSD has
been ported to run on them.

I was (just today) sent a press release from a while back about
OpenBSD on their 3xxx series machines:

http://www.arinfotek.com/news/news_d.asp?sty=2pid=29


-- Jonathan Towne

Re: Routerboards (was: Re: Routerboard 532 Bounty)

[Paul de Weerd]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:44:10AM -0400, Bret Lambert wrote:
| On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:15 -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
|  I sent a couple of emails - hey, this sounds like a nice plan, tell
|  me more - and never heard back one way or the other. *shrug* I have a
|
| That's unfortunate; they looked like neat little boxes.
|
| My curiosity was piqued, and I started looking around, and found
| embeddedplanet.com, but that seems to be aimed more at commercial system
| developers than end-users.
|
| So, a question to the list: besides soekris and WRAP boards (and the
| specific board that began the thread), what tiny, non-PC machines are
| out there and useful?

Not really an answer to your question (as it's i386), but I have a
Fabiatech FX5620 w/ a VIA Eden 1GHz CPU and 256MB of RAM. It has 1x
re(4) and 5x (rl). I added a 1GB CF disk as wd0 and a ral(4) for WiFi
access. It's very low power (24V DC @ 1.25A), has serial (no BIOS
support, unfortunately) and completely silent.

Alas, OpenBSD crashes on my machine after some running time for (as
yet) unknown reasons - could very well be this particular machine (if
anyone else on the list has this machine running OpenBSD, let me know)

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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