[olug] Soekris single board computers

[Will Langford]

Narly :)
 Glad to see the geode being used in other embedded worlds.
 -Will


 On 10/4/05, Neal Rauhauser <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> wrote:
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>
> I've been using Soekris Net 4511 single board computers for a while.
> They've got a 486/100, 64 meg of ram, a compact flash slot, and a PCMCIA
> slot in addition to their two onboard 10/100 ethernet ports. I've mostly
> had OpenBSD 3.4 on them but I'm about to convert a couple to the
> MikroTik Linux distribution.
>
> I've been using some old Unisys Pentium 100 bookshelf machines running
> FreeBSD for network analysis. They're loud, they're slow, they're small,
> but not as small as the Soekris net 4801. I just brought in four of the
> 4801s for a network monitoring project. They come with a 266 MHz Geode
> processor, 128 meg of ram onboard, three ethernet ports, and a miniPCI
> slot. I'm populating the miniPCI slot on some of them with a Soekris
> VPN1411 crypto accelerator and I'm using Hitachi 2.0 gig microdrives for
> storage ($79 after rebate from CompUSA!). They'll get FreeBSD via
> network install and I managed to load the project finances such that one
> of these little guys will be staying here on my desk to keep me company.
>
> The 4801s are only about $360 by the time you get a microdrive in them
> and they're dead silent. If you feel the need for a wireless component
> they do make a case that is predrilled for RP-TNC and you can get
> miniPCI wireless cards. I took a few pictures for your viewing pleasure:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/avyakata/sets/1074986/
>
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