Similar, but not as mature support is being worked on in OpenBSD as well: http://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html
OpenBSD is amazing.
FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
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Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, only one shitty Ethernet port. I'd love to find fast hardware with multiple independent gigabit ports for an affordable price.
Right, but they weren't designed to be fast routers. They make awesome single-purpose servers, though (DNS recursors and NTP, in my case).
Yea, for something like a single-purpose DNS recursor or NTP server, any cheap hardware will do. You got your terminal server for what? 15 dollars? Much more reasonable than the 100 bucks an ERL costs.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#23In general for small hardware I go with two options.
Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). You can get decent performance, potentially hang a 5.8/2.4ghz radio on it too, and power it off a single laptop USB port (200mA normal power use, and with stuff, still less than 500mA.) Can put second ethernet, wifi, 3G, etc. there. There's no current commercial hardware in this space which is perfect. That should change shortly.
Much beefier systems with "real" amounts of RAM and flash. I generally skip the Broadcom/RPi/etc. and go straight to an Atom or i3, but that's just for convenience, since I only need a small number of them. There's probably something more reasonable to do in the embedded space, but I'm indifferent on qty 1 devices between $500 and $200, especially if I already have most of the components for the $500 thing lying around, and it saves me an hour or two getting it working.
There are a lot of things missing from widely available commercial hardware in this space right now.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#24Related: I picked up a couple of Neoware CA21 thin clients on eBay real cheap recently. 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, and 1 GB disk-on-module. I built customized (NanoBSD) images and run them read-only off of a flash drive. I connected a Garmin GPS 18 LVC to one and have my own stratum 1 NTP server for < $100.
Unfortunately, only one shitty Ethernet port. I'd love to find fast hardware with multiple independent gigabit ports for an affordable price.
http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm ?
Presumably this will actually be released at some point soon.
Also the soekris hardware looks nice, but it's pretty expensive.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, only one shitty Ethernet port. I'd love to find fast hardware with multiple independent gigabit ports for an affordable price.
http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm ? Presumably this will actually be released at some point soon. Also the soekris hardware looks nice, but it's pretty expensive.
/me salivates
Unfortunately by the time it's released, the hardware will already be a bit old. But nonetheless, the specs are certainly sufficient for most cool things.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#26I've been running Gentoo Linux on my EdgeRouter Lite for a long time now. " rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3> I must say: the ERL is terrible hardware. You can get some performance out of it if you're using Ubiquiti's kernel, because it ships with a series of highly specialized proprietary modules that offload packet handling to hardware accelerated modules, for their custom proprietary netwo…
What hardware would you actually want?
I want a secure (but end-user-openable) boot loader, good crypto performance (to do ~linerate AES, and some PKC operations, for things like opportunistic ipsec eventually), and flexible interfaces (ideally, N x Intel GigE and 2 x dual-band wifi radio chipsets).
Real RED/BLACK would be a huge feature, too, and potentially hardware mode switch, or some other technology to work with the trusted boot loader in a way that malware can't hurt. Watchdog. PoEable for the higher end, and in the low end products, absolutely 5v <2.1A (i.e. Apple iPad charger), and ideally <900mA (USB3) or <500mA (USB2).
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#27In general for small hardware I go with two options. Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). You can get decent performance, potentially hang a 5.8/2.4ghz radio on it too, and power it off a single laptop USB port (200mA normal power use, and with stuff, still less than 500mA.) Can put second ethernet, wifi, 3G, etc. there. There's no current c…
> Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply).
The Carambola 2 board is pretty cheap and it's quite awesome.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#28In general for small hardware I go with two options. Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). You can get decent performance, potentially hang a 5.8/2.4ghz radio on it too, and power it off a single laptop USB port (200mA normal power use, and with stuff, still less than 500mA.) Can put second ethernet, wifi, 3G, etc. there. There's no current c…
> Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). The Carambola 2 board is pretty cheap and it's quite awesome.
Yeah; reworked TP-Link 703s are cheaper, though.
Missing a couple of things I want, though.
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#29In general for small hardware I go with two options. Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). You can get decent performance, potentially hang a 5.8/2.4ghz radio on it too, and power it off a single laptop USB port (200mA normal power use, and with stuff, still less than 500mA.) Can put second ethernet, wifi, 3G, etc. there. There's no current c…
> That should change shortly.
Tell us more :)
Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331 based systems, with 64MB ram and 16MB flash (kind of hard to get in that config cheaply). The Carambola 2 board is pretty cheap and it's quite awesome.
Yeah; reworked TP-Link 703s are cheaper, though. Missing a couple of things I want, though.
Reworked how?