On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:45:10PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > Check out the mini-ITX motherboard based systems. They're not as > cheap as WRAP/ALIX, but way more powerful.
I have two C3 based mini-ITX, and I'm not at all sure that an ALIX Geode LX isn't comparable, especially if AES and hardware RNG is taken into account (C3 Nehemia only has a RNG). A 1 GHz C7 is likely to be a bit faster, but I sure would like to see benchmarks comparing these two. I've got a WRAP board as my home router, which is doing okay on a 1 MBit/26 MBit cable modem link. It used to reportedly max out at around 40 MBit/s throughput, but I expect it to do quite a lot better with recent builds. > I just built a NAS box using a Jetway Versa J7F4K1G2E which has a VIA > CPU and the VIA padlock device on board which gives you SHA1, SHA256, > and AES-CBC in hardware (supported by openssl on freebsd, not that it > is needed for a NAS...) It is quite a fast little system. > > Pair that mobo with a nice morex wall-mount case and a CF to IDE I've got a couple of 4 GByte flash SSDs today which I intend to use for my dual mini-ITXen, with full pfsense install. They're advertised as 4 Mh MTBF, which should be comparable to modern drives. > adapter card that plugs right in to the board (or a disk on module), > and you've got a nice little router for pfsense for about $250. If > you get a fanless case, it will be 100% silent and no moving parts. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
