[Cerowrt-devel] WNDR alternative for higher capacity

[Dave Taht]

I should probably mention that at the tippity top of my list is:

http://www.adapteva.com/

That (with a second ethernet port and pcie slot) has enormous
potential, to move packet processing into either hardware (fat FPGA),
or the totally open co-processor, and offers the potential to get some
software defined radio stuff done.

That plan unfortunately doesn't meet a few short-term goals... is
unfunded... and will take a long time to produce results.

Middle term is to get our stuff pushed up to mainline and let the
market figure out what to put it on.

I'd like to find a decent based box for some future work. I hate
seeing a base price of 400 bucks or so on a x86 based one, though I
guess to get over 10x the network performance, 4x the base cost is not
too much to bear.


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> Fred Stratton <fredstratton at imap.cc> writes:
>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shuttle-Ultra-DS47-Barebone-System/dp/B00DK06L6O
>>
>> Clicking on the pictures reveals a Realtek half-height wireless card.
>
> Yeah, as far as I can tell that says RTL8188CE on there; Google is not
> very helpful on that front, though.
>
>> Before you spend money, perhaps I should point out that Shuttle
>> hardware has a reputation for poor reliability.
>
> Noted, thanks.
>
>> The problem I ran into on the NUC's was that all the 802.11ac cards
>> are presently full-length, and the msata lines had only been run to
>> the full length slot rather than the half length ones.
>
> Well I can live without 802.11ac for the time being. However, the
> Shuttle data sheet has this paragraph:
>
>> DS47 features two Mini PCI Expess expansion slots which can easily
>> accessed by removing the appropriate bay cover. One slot supports half
>> size cards and is already occupied with a WLAN card. The other slot also
>> supports full size cards and can be used either for a Mini PCIe card or
>> for a mSATA (Mini Serial ATA) card, which is a Solid State Drive (SSD)
>> in a compact Mini PCIe card form factor.
>
> Which I take to mean that if you use the 2.5" bay for storage, you can
> use the full-size minipcie for other purposes.
>
>> It bothers me to have to use a msata card at all, to do what we want
>> only needs 16MB of flash, not 16GB of flash. The onboard bios flash on
>> these x86 boxes is probably getting close to 16MB already...
>
> Well I was going to run it as a file server as well; probably not
> running openwrt, even (though not sure about that just yet).
>
>> I don't know if the realtek ethernet chips got working BQL support
>> yet.
>
> Seeing as I'm going to need htb anyways, I can also live with that...
>
> -Toke
>
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