[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Joshua Boyd]

Not that I am aware of. There is some freebsd support though: http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/

He notes that he can only get 250mb/s through his device when running freebsd. I suppose this means he doesn't have freebsd making full use of the hardware acceleration offered by the cavium SoC.

On February 17, 2014 1:12:46 AM EST, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>On 02/17/14 01:07, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> If I was in a settling mood, it would be good enough, but still more
>> work than settling for an ARM box or an Alix running PFSense.  If I'm
>> not in a settling mood, I'd like to have 3 ports, one for WAN at 50MB
>> with an option for 105 in the future, one for GigE, and one for 300Mb
>> WiFi (over a GigE port), and I want to route from wifi to the GigE
>> side at full speed, and also posibly use the machine as a VPN end
>> point.
>> 
>> Can the EdgeRouter series do all that?  It claims to be able to, but
>> after getting it, I settled for configuring it and haven't persued
>> actually doing the rest of what I want with it.
>
>Since its OS is an embedded Debian Linux, I'd be pretty surprised if it
>couldn't.  I'm now actually considering the lowest-priced
>rack-mountable
>EdgeRouter myself.
>
>I wonder if it'll run OpenBSD...?
>
>
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