<div dir="auto">keep in mind that pfsense will require aes-ni down the line and that Realtek nics cap out at about 700 Mb/s just switching traffic. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2017 8:34 AM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2017-09-22 15:59, Joey Kelly wrote:<br>
> On Friday 22 September 2017 12:53:34 DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
>> The newer APU2 CPUs handle 750+Mbps on their GigE connections thanks to<br>
>> Intel NICs. These aren't the old Alix boards.<br>
><br>
> I'm about to get a few of these for my lab. I'm working on a perpetual dev<br>
> project and had wanted to use Soekris, but they just pulled out of the US. I<br>
> started looking for a replacement and found these, the apparent Alix<br>
> successor. These things are beefier and way cheaper, so it's a win.<br>
><br>
> On a side note, there's lots of little router-style boxes out of there, but<br>
> most of them are from Red China. I shudder to think what lurks in the firmware.<br>
><br>
> --Joey<br>
><br>
<br>
I've been looking at one of these though I haven't pulled the trigger<br>
yet since they're not cheap. Not necessarily direct from China (though<br>
one office is in Taiwan).<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.logicsupply.com/ml400g-12/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.logicsupply.com/<wbr>ml400g-12/</a><br>
<br>
That's the fanless BayTrail version. They have one with fan for a bit<br>
less (with pfSense preinstalled).<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.logicsupply.com/fw200b-10/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.logicsupply.com/<wbr>fw200b-10/</a><br>
<br>
Or just use the automagic configurators to pick what you want.<br>
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