Re: Soekris Net6501 alternatives.

William Ahern <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Feb 2019 11:26:10 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.hardware.soekris.technical
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 01:37:05PM -0500, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> Has anyone tried this:
> 
>      https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0741F634J
> 
> product line as a replacement for the Soekris Net6501 use case? It
> looks a little pricey but it also looks like its got enough CPU to run
> the 1Gb ethernet ports at full speed. I found this when this video:
> 
>      https://youtu.be/bK2_ROQrMcM
> 
> In my feed. It describes the author/presenter's choices for running
> pfSense. I run OpenBSD but it looks like this is just a low power PC
> that should run any Free Unix OS.

According to this article a Vault FW2B can achieve 1Gb/s with OpenBSD:

  https://tech.mangot.com/blog/2018/11/08/showing-a-gigabit-openbsd-firewall-some-monitoring-love/

The FW6A's performance seems at least as fast:

  http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/931/Intel_Celeron_J3060_vs_Intel_Mobile_Celeron_Dual-Core_3865U.html
  https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-J3060-vs-Intel-Celeron-3865U/2852vs3034