Re: Recommendations for small NetBSD network box

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:33:32PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Adding port-i386 :-)
> 
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 2:22 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> 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.
> 
>     http://soekris.com/products/net5501.html
> 
> Looks like it fits the bill, and you can add the crypto offload processor as an option.
> 
>     http://soekris.com/products/vpn14x1.html

There is also products based on the Vortex86MX (or PMX-1000, it's the
same chip). They seems to be hard to find though ...

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Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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