SoC with multiple ethernet ports
John
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Wed Apr 5 15:37:03 UTC 2017
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, at 16:26, Norman Gray wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I'm looking for a SoC (or other small) machine to act as a gateway
> between two physical networks (in fact, an ordinary one and an IPMI).
> Thus I'm looking for such a device which has at least two ethernet
> interfaces, and can run FreeBSD.
>
> There are multiple boards listed at
> <https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm>, but the boards under the 'Well
> supported boards' headings appear only to have single interfaces (though
> I wouldn't claim an exhaustive search).
>
> I can see what appear to be nice multiple-interface boards at
> <https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/>, but they're listed
> under 'unknown support'. I can see some notes on some Marvell boards at
> <https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSDMarvell>, but these refer to FreeBSD
> 8.x and 9-CURRENT, so are clearly not up-to-date.
>
> Searching the list archives, I find
> <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2015-February/010300.html>
> that at least some people are using 11.0-CURRENT on an Armada/Marvell
> board, but (given that that's a bug report) I'm not sure if that usage
> counts as ...Brave or not.
>
> There's clearly a lot of hardware possibilities here, but I surely can't
> be the first person to want such a device. Does anyone on this list
> have any advice?
>
See my thread of 3rd April ;)
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J.
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