ARM platform for network router

[Miroslav Chlastak]

I know, that there are users runing freebsd on routerboard 450. But this model is end of life, and this board is booting only from tftp (not for CF or NAND).
Some box like TP-Link/Noname has no more performance like alix (with i386 geode cpu).

Box with better performance (compared to eg. ARM/MIPS routerboard) on i386 is bigger and more expensive (like arm/mips hw).

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10. 3. 2014 v 20:16, Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely7.cicely.de>:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:50:31PM +0100, Miroslav Chlastak wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> is there any box like ???alix/wrap boards???, that can be uset as router with ARM CPU? We are looking for a new platform with more power instead of Alix board. But every i386 platform is too expensive (when comparing to eg. routerboard).
> 
> Take a look at the MIPS mailinglist.
> IIRC some people have FreeBSD running on routerboard hardware.
> And some even cheaper TP-Link (and noname) (mostly) Atheros based
> router hardware works fine.
> Most of them have small flash based filesystem space, but as many
> have USB you can run a full featured FreeBSD by using USB drives.
> Beside having an USB port you wan to look for at least 32MB or 64MB RAM.
> For example the carambola 2 using AR9331 with 64MB RAM runs fine, but
> unfortunately 8devices only wired 2 ethernet ports from the internal switch.
> The Atheros chip itself has 2 NIC, with one connected to an internal
> 5-port VLAN capable switch.
> Last time I've checked however FreeBSD had no support to configure the
> internal switch however.
> But you can get countless boards using this and other supported Atrheros
> chips, just watch out for RAM, as there are boards with 8 and 16MB RAM
> only.
> Even without support to configure the switch you have 2 individual NIC.
> 
> -- 
> B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
> Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.