looking for suggestions for a small router/appliance board/SoC

[John Nielsen]

On Oct 23, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Huub Schuurmans <huubsch at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Op 22/10/15 om 20:19 schreef Jim Thompson:
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>>> 
>>> I may just start with a PC Engines apu1d, but if there are boards that are smaller, cheaper, have lower power requirements and/or have integrated wifi or switch capabilities I’d like to look in to them as well.
>> 
>> you can probably get APU in low-volume, but quantity is very constrained these days (it’s been true all year).
> 
> APU meets all your specifications, we have never had a problem in
> getting these from PCEngines. Acoording to their website they have some
> 500 in stock now.

Yes, I’ll probably stick with an APU for now since I can get it with dual wireless cards and a 4GB SD card for just over $200 US.

I’d still like something smaller if possible, though. It looks like there are some MIPS wireless access points that could fit the bill if I revise my requirements (especially storage). I see there are freebsd-wifi-build scripts for the TP-Link TL-WDR3600, so it might be a good starting point. Has anyone tried a newer TP-Link like the WDR4300? Other suggestions? Thanks!

Revised requirements:
  - Capable of running FreeBSD
  - Dual band wifi with adapters supported by FreeBSD in HOSTAP mode (Qualcomm/Atheros good, Broadcom bad?)
  - 3+ GbE ports
  - 8+ MB of storage (if Adrian’s scripts can still do an image that small with some headroom), more is better
  - 64+ MB of RAM, more is better
  - 2 USB ports

JN