[ale] homebrew routers, castoff hardware

[Alex Carver]

On 2017-09-22 15:59, Joey Kelly wrote:
> On Friday 22 September 2017 12:53:34 DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> The newer APU2 CPUs handle 750+Mbps on their GigE connections thanks to
>> Intel NICs.  These aren't the old Alix boards.
> 
> I'm about to get a few of these for my lab. I'm working on a perpetual dev 
> project and had wanted to use Soekris, but they just pulled out of the US. I 
> started looking for a replacement and found these, the apparent Alix 
> successor. These things are beefier and way cheaper, so it's a win.
> 
> On a side note, there's lots of little router-style boxes out of there, but 
> most of them are from Red China. I shudder to think what lurks in the firmware.
> 
> --Joey
> 

I've been looking at one of these though I haven't pulled the trigger
yet since they're not cheap.  Not necessarily direct from China (though
one office is in Taiwan).

https://www.logicsupply.com/ml400g-12/

That's the fanless BayTrail version.  They have one with fan for a bit
less (with pfSense preinstalled).

https://www.logicsupply.com/fw200b-10/

Or just use the automagic configurators to pick what you want.