ORP1 - An Open Router Project(indiegogo.com)
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ORP1 - An Open Router Project
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/orp1-an-open-router-project/x/295408
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pfSense guy here.
If you think a dual core D525 is the sh*t, just wait until you see an 8 core OOE 'Atom' with AES-NI support, and 4 i350 GigE Ethernets running pfSense 2.2 (based on FreeBSD 10, so multi-core pf, etc...)
Or the dual core 4 x i350 variant for under $200.
yes, very low power.
If you think a dual core D525 is the sh*t, just wait until you see an 8 core OOE 'Atom' with AES-NI support, and 4 i350 GigE Ethernets running pfSense 2.2 (based on FreeBSD 10, so multi-core pf, etc...)
Or the dual core 4 x i350 variant for under $200.
yes, very low power.
Cheers,
PFSense has been absolutely amazing for us, with us running 2 boxes to provide routing for inter office links. We looked at it for our core routers about 1 1/2 years ago, and would have gone with it except for it not at that time supporting our hardware in the stable release (ended up with Linux / IPtables / Keepalived due to time constraints). But our testbed (old PowerEdge R200 single dual core proc) handled everything we through at it. Certainly cheeper then the Juniper quote we got...
I am really impressed with the upcoming generation of atoms. They seem like they are going to be impressive in both networking and storage.
PFSense has been absolutely amazing for us, with us running 2 boxes to provide routing for inter office links. We looked at it for our core routers about 1 1/2 years ago, and would have gone with it except for it not at that time supporting our hardware in the stable release (ended up with Linux / IPtables / Keepalived due to time constraints). But our testbed (old PowerEdge R200 single dual core proc) handled everything we through at it. Certainly cheeper then the Juniper quote we got...
I am really impressed with the upcoming generation of atoms. They seem like they are going to be impressive in both networking and storage.
Seems expensive to me.
I didnt really look at the components or r&d involved. Is it that much better than a tomato/dd-wrt based router?
I didnt really look at the components or r&d involved. Is it that much better than a tomato/dd-wrt based router?
I also worry with all the packets going through the core processor and it only being an 800mhz PPC. Is this going to be able to handle the traffic from a 100mbit connection w/ a protocol like bit torrent creating 100s of connections and it having to NAT that traffic.
The major issues I see with Home routers is either complexity or performance. Even here in Australia there exist a reasonable number of people who are able to get 100mbits services on HFC / Fibre. If you were able to include an FGPA that you could offload packet routing to you might have something interesting (can affordable FPGAs do gigabit packet rates?). Obviously an ASIC requires a fairly high production rate to be economical. Maybe a dual processor configuration with a dedicated packet passing processor and an "Application Processor".
I want to like this being its from my home city (Brisbane, Australia), but I really can't see the value in it over other devices.