Re: Recommendations for small NetBSD network box

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 5, 2012, at 5:22 PM, David Brownlee wrote:

> Apologies for cross posting to three pretty generic CPU lists, but I'm
> hoping the answer lies with the expertise reading this now :)
>
> I'm looking for a small box to act as a NAT & low traffic VPN device.
>
> Requirements are pretty simple:
> - At least two Ethernet interfaces (100base fine)
> - Enough RAM to to run NAT (probably pf), and IPSEC or OpenVPN
> (fortunately not both) for up to about 50 web (or weblike) clients &
> sshd
> - Small (sub mini-itx), and cased (looks like a product)
> - USB port to plug in a 3G dongle would be nice.

Some of these:
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Fuloong
have two ethernet ports, memory & CPU should be more than enough,  
there's a bunch of USB ports and NetBSD support has been added a few  
months ago. It will likely produce more heat than a comparable ARM box  
but it's still small and it's not too bad once someone with access to  
the hardware adds support for CPU clock scaling ( what I added is  
Gdium-specific but adapting it to this machine should be trivial - all  
you need is an external 100Hz timer interrupt )

have fun
Michael
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