[Cerowrt-devel] nuc stuff

[Outback Dingo]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Dave Täht <dave at taht.net> wrote:

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> On 2/15/16 8:11 AM, dpreed at reed.com wrote:
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> > BTW, I went shopping for a pure home "gateway" box.  What pleased me was
> this board, because I am sure it has the "oomph" to deal with up to Gigabit
> packet processing (which is where all the current residential ISPs will
> shortly be).  It has room for RAM and a good mini-PCIe card, as well as a
> modest mSATA drive. You can use virtualization to provide isolation between
> parts.
> >
> >
> > - Jetway NU93-2930 NUC Form Factor Intel Celeron N2930 SoC Bay Trail 2
> Intel LAN, 2 Display, 2 x HDMI, 1 x SATA2 port, full-size mSATA, half-size
> mini-PCIE, 1 External COM, 3xUSB2, 1xUSB3, Audio, 9V-24V DC-in (size 4" x
> 4" x 1.5").
> >
> > - 8 GB SODIMM ($35)
> > - 32 GB mSATA ($30)
> > - 12v Wallwart
>
>
> Oh, goodie. I've been a very happy user of the nuc based products for
> quite some time now (it is generally my main desktop box and I use two
> as load generators). The linux support for the graphics chipset,
> ethernet drivers, etc, is excellent, the fan, quiet, the speed adaquate
> for everything except big compiles (where I am spoilt by having a big
> box in the cloud). I would hope it is a good box for bsd/pfsense also.
>
> It is a really good box for server/IoT controller/Torrent/development
> duties as well, and having one as my main router to the internet has
> always been an option (I do not mind having wifi on a separate box anymore)
>
> Finding one with dual ethernet ports was always a problem.
>
> Problems are:
>
> 0) Internal wifi antennas may suck. Still the basic case and device are
> 229 on amazon + memory.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SHYW6US/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AEELF2HAVZFED
>
> Ordered one with the tall case. Thx!
>
> I am very tired of not having a full OS on the firewall/gateway and will
> give this a shot. I am pretty sure that things like openwrt derived
> odhcp6 and so on will be of help....
>
> 1) The msata slot is full length. The wifi slot is half length which
> restricts you to using half length cards. Only 2x2 802.11n is achievable
> in that form factor.
>
> Since I wanted 3x3 or 802.11ac support...
>
> I experimented with using a usb3 stick as a hard disk, roached two (and
> it was slow) so I gave up on that and went with an external usb3 hard
> disk - and recently found a usb3 to msata adaptor which is working
> pretty well.
>
> Then they came up with a taller case so you can use a regular sata disk.
> I have kept hoping to find something I could mirror with, like this:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AYI276I?psc=1
> or this
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ITJ7WDC/ref=pd_luc_rh_mrairec_01_04_t_img_lh?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> 2) Although this looks to be less powerful than other (i3, i5) nucs I've
> had, the default ethernet driver does do TSO offloads. You *can* turn
> them off and I think 1GigE forwarding rates are possible - otherwise,
> cake would be needed. Will find out tomorrow.
>
> I have totally lost track of the differentiation between atom and
> celeron - I was using the rangeley platform elsewhere...
>
> 3) The edgerouter X provides about 250mbit dual ports for 50 bucks.
> The linksys ac1200 can do gigE with cake, but it's still a bit buggy.
>
> ...
>
> Other items maybe worth playing with on other hardware were things like
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Port-mSATA-Components-SD-PEX40079/dp/B00KKO6N98/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455560175&sr=1-3&keywords=msata+raid
>
>
Gigabyte and ASUS also have some decent NUCs already out or coming soon!



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