[nycbug-talk] ARM NICs

[George Neville-Neil]

On 12/11/13 17:07, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/11/13 13:44, George Neville-Neil wrote:
>> On 12/11/13 15:27, George Rosamond wrote:
>>> Pete Wright:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/11/13 10:59, Mikel King wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey guys - anyone know of any ARM boards that have more than on NIC?
>>>>>> Checked around quickly last night and didn't find anything too promising.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> my plan is to run a super low-power board to act as a NAT device for
>>>>>> some R&D stuff i'm doing.  figure it'd be a good chance to test out
>>>>>> FreeBSD's evolving ARM support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers!
>>>>>> -pete
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Pete Wright
>>>>>> pete at nomadlogic.org
>>>>>> twitter => @nomadlogicLA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey Pete,
>>>>>
>>>>> Would this work?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/99-arm-based-pc-runs-either-ubuntu-or-android/
>>>>>
>>>> oh snap i forgot about that bad-boy.  that may be just the thing i'm
>>>> looking for.  looks like the board is driven by this:
>>>>
>>>> Freescale i.MX6 single / dual / quad core Cortex-A9 MPCore, up to 1.2GHz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> there seems to be initial support of a xylinx SOC using the cortex-a9 here:
>>>>
>>>> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications
>>>>
>>>> this may be a winner...def seems like a fun bit of kit to hack on :)
>>>
>>> maybe ping the FreeBSD arm@ list and see who's working on it.. .and
>>> check the most recent crochet for support.
>>>
>>> I'm *really* curious to know which hardware the pfSense people are
>>> working on...
>>>
>>
>> BTW At the moment I'm not working on any multi Ethernet ARM boards, just
>> Pi and BBB.  If such things come to exist I"ll definitely look at them
>> though.
>>
> 
> thanks for the heads up George!  I think I am going to purchase one of
> these systems and see how it goes from there:
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> 
> http://utilite-computer.com/web/utilite-specifications
> 

That board ought to work soonish.  ganbold@ is working on a similar
board, but with only one Ethernet.

Best,
George