On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Leon Fauster leonfauster@googlemail.comwrote:
Am 13.12.2013 um 01:10 schrieb SilverTip257 silvertip257@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Leon Fauster <
leonfauster@googlemail.com>wrote:
Unless it's embedded hardware ... by the time EL6 isn't supported I'll
be
you'll have a beefier x86_64 machine as a firewall! :)
any suggestions?
I was thinking maybe a Soekris board with Intel Atom CPUs can get you the 64-bit CPUs you want. But no ... once you get through the models that
have
AMD Geode LX CPUs (which are 486/586) you stumble into models that have Intel Atom CPUs that are in the E6xx family which are not 64-bit capable. And boy are the upper-end models a bit salty (might be a bit cheaper from a distributor/reseller).
You could build a mini-ITX system ... but you'd probably quadruple power consumption (~5w for Geode LX800 systems and likely ~20w for Atom
systems).
i got a response from Pcengines: "The new boards are still in the beta phase, production in february".
It looks promising especially the roadmap http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm:-)
Sweet! That hardware is a big improvement over the current ALIX series with Geode LX800s. Gotta wonder where they come in on the pricing scale? Time will tell. ;-)
Thanks for sharing.
*If you purchase one I'd appreciate a review. :-)*
And to think I've been eyeing up the Ubiquiti Edge Routers [0] (but they're $99 USD as opposed to nearly $200 USD or more for whatever the new APU series will be). But the ERs are MIPS-64, etc so I'd run the EdgeOS or _maybe_ Debian (or anything else that supports that arch -- I've not done much research as I prefer x86/amd64).
[0] http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#edge-router-lite
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