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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 07:45:15PM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: >> Yep. I've got two of those in production as firewalls. They are at least >> twice as expensive as the pcengines units. Also, anything but the new-ish >> soekris 55xx series is an order of magnitude slower than the alix boards. > > The Soekris boxes have much better BIOSes (better supported by / supporting > at least the FreeBSD boot loader). Well, that's until we've got coreboot running on the alix.2 and alix.3 series, which should not take too long. It already works on alix.1c. > They also have other neat things like a > PCI slot, Alix.1c has a full length pci slot + a minipci slot. The various other alix boards have at least one minipci slot. > a better RS-232 port, Uhm - better how? 9 pins exposed to an external serial connector, 115200bps - does it get better than that? > GPIO ports etc etc. All alix boards have a (large) GPIO header. > The advantages of the PC Engines boards are 1) cost and 2) awesomely small > case. I'd argue that the PC Engines boards have all the advantages you listed above as well, short of the BIOS perhaps for now. > Both the Soekris and the PC Engines boards are super fun though. I usually > use them as small routers or firewalls with FreeBSD ("self-built" with > NanoBSD or via pfSense or m0n0wall). The new generation (Alix and 5501) > don't seem to have any trouble keeping a 100Mbit link busy. I see the same; I can basically forward/firewall traffic pretty much at wire speed on the alix2c3. And that's with Voyage Linux (http://linux.voyage.hk/) which is a Debian Etch-based distro for boards like the alix and soekris ones. Thanks, Ward. -- Pong.be -( "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to )- Virtual hosting -( reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer )- http://pong.be -( )- GnuPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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