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The APU is great. The APU2 was recently released: http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm Improvements over the first version: quad cor
by scw 11y ago
The APU is great. The APU2 was recently released:
http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm http://pcengines.ch/apu2b4.htm
Improvements over the first version: quad core, Intel Gigabit NICS, new CPU supports AES-NI and AVX (AMD-V), ECC memory, and a USB 3.0 bus. Still some issues being ironed out, but will make excellent router hardware. Note that WiFi is a relative weakness on BSD, and you'll need to carefully choose a chipset to support hostap mode. The Atheros abgn cards are generally the best.
- newman314 11y agoI wonder if anyone would release a home router based on an Annapurna chip. Looks like pretty ideal specs the last time I looked.
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- erhardm 11y agoYou can search for cards that use this chipsets[0]. [0]http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/athn.4?query=athn&sec=4 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man4/...
- ZoFreX 11y agoAn APU with Intel ethernet? This changes everything! (Lack of Intel ethernet ruled out the APU out for me) Also - How did you know about this? I can't find that page by browsing their site and I didn't even know this existed!
- scw 11y agoThe board has been in beta testing for a few months, folks were discussing it on the OpenBSD -tech list.