SoC with multiple ethernet ports

John tech-lists at zyxst.net
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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