I've so far had good luck with CompuLab's Fitlet-X-LAN. Pretty good if all you need is 4 ports. Confirmed with Debian8 & Shorewall (and an admittedly short rule list) it can forward from port to port @ line-rate (TCP at 115MByte/sec). For clarification: this is a bridge setup with bridge-port firewalling, no NAT. but it has full connection tracking & this is 4 separate (i211? igb driver) NICs, not a switch chip. Intended to go in front of a hypervisor box that will go into a datacenter.
Also using one as an edge router/CPE for personal use. Not as cheap as an APU3B4, about 2.5x the price. VERY low power draw (5W?). Supports up to 8GB RAM, has two HDMI, a miniPCIe/mSATA port, plus their FACET card is really just an odd form-factor miniPCIe. You probably could fit another miniPCIe card in if you didn't need more than one port. Standard AMI UEFI BIOS (whether you prefer this or Coreboot is up to you). Bootable from the microSD card, but not recommended. Sent from myPhone. > On Apr 27, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Attila Kinali <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:48:09 -0700 > Dan Shechter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have replaced my failing 6501 with PC Engine APU2. Very happy. >> >> Funny how the rack mounting kits cost a lot, relative to the price of the >> APU its self. > > I dont see what you are complaining about, the price of an APU + rack mount > kit > is still less than half the price of a net6501. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All > the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no > use without that foundation. > -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
