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If you need a good pfSense platform for cheap but sufficient to handle much load and run the most of
the packets I would have a closer look to Axiomtek NA-342 and NA-361 you can call the sales
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While FreeBSD, on which pfSense is based, does have some community projects to get it working on ARM and MIPS based platforms, it is no where near ready for production use, this is, of course, precluding any work required to port custom pfSense code over to a different platform.
I agree that MIPS would make more interesting target given the large number of inexpensive devices, yet ARM support seems to be further advanced, perhaps by the simple fact of the existence of the Raspberry Pi and its maker community.
One problem that I see in targeting inexpensive devices, is that often times, these devices have hardware problems that are loosely patched around in the OEM's shoddy code, making it very challenging for developers.
@sajansen; nice box, but no Ethernet ports!
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I agree that MIPS would make more interesting target given the large number of inexpensive devices,
Lets say it will be more interesting for consumers that will get a box that is like more a router
or firewall device and is also sorted with more than one LAN port, as the RAPIs are owning. -
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Let me say as someone who has immersed myself in the past 2 months in all things 'ARM', you are missing nothing. These "maker" board are nothing more than a fascination with something other than Intel. I have not seen one board yet that i said-Gee would it run pfSense?, and thats coming from a guy who puts pfSense on everything. I have an AIO 22" with pfSense running ap mode. All kind of dumb things. But outside of the Gateworks Ventana boards I see no reason to waste your money. Gateworks cost $500 so my romance ended there quickly. Why pay more than Intel for something slower?
http://www.gateworks.com/product/item/ventana-gw5310-network-processor
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There is one board that looked promising, but I looked at it skeptically, the BananaPi R1 board. It seems to have nice features but they are just cosmetic. I saw a post about its performance and it was crap. The pci-e controller is not right and it cannot come close to obtaining gigabyte speeds on even one interface. Broadcom LAN chip implementation is not good. Elsewhere I read the SATA port is hosed and you have to mod the board to provide proper juice to it. Maybe just a physical disk issue, not SSD.
http://www.bananapi.com/index.php/component/content/article?layout=edit&id=59
Maybe Banana Pi R2 will fix stuff and we can have a $80 pfSense box.
I need to speak to them Pi Boys about changing that WLAN to Atheros!!!
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Banana Pi, Raspberry Pi, etc. these are not junk. They were developed with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries.
These pieces of hardware must be thus as cheap as possible, performance and quality is not their main goal, but the chance to achieve as many young students as possible.Running pfSense on a Pi can be a great challenge for a student. But trying to make bussiness out of it is not only stupid, but also morally questionable.
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Well I agree that they are great tools for learning..
I have not seen one yet suited to network usage. What they call gigabit ethernet on Arm is not what I would call acceptable for firewall usage. Maybe one day it will mature.
Regarding hardware I think there are too many players in the field muddying up the waters. Poor developers have to chase 6 month board design lifecycles. How many Raspberry Pi's are there? How many different CPU's? Can you imagine the bus nightmare compared to the development of the PC Bus which matured over decades. -
@Phishfry; thanks for that perspective on the ARM situation. It is, as I suspected, mostly hype.
Personally, I would never lay out money on hardware that has Broadcom or Realtek controllers wired or wireless, both of these are an invitation to problems.
CPU I'm less picky about, as long as it can deliver the performance required to move data through the box.The cost of making any hardware can only be lowered in huge quantities; any outfit that thinks they can make a <$100 router can only get there by gambling and making many tens of thousands of units, and using crappy cheap silicon in the hopes that the money they make from the sale of GEN.1 devices allows them to work on GEN.2, and completely abandon the users who bought GEN.1, and so on.
In the end consumer electronics will never satisfy the technocrat, purist, sysadm, whatever you want to call us, because you get what you pay for, and we really want to have our cake and eat it too! :D -
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You can see for yourself what kind of performance you get over here.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nas4free/files/NAS4Free-ARM/
Number listed there resemble what I am seeing as well.Odroid best of the bunch at 400mb/sec for a gigabit line.
