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I've been trying to find a sweet spot with the VIA stuff. I think i found it: http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_cl_spec.jsp?motherboardId=181 It's the EPIA-CL6000E, which is just like the PD you found but lacks the 'digital i/o' port for POS applications. You can pick them up at axiontech.com for $136.95. (iboxpc is selling the same thing for $190, one of them goofed). Add ram ($50), cf/ide adapter ($50/$10), power supply ($45!) and case ($40!) and you're over $300. But you have a lot more to play with. Among a host of other things, it has LVDS output for driving small LCD panels, so if you get bored running m0n0 on it, you could try to hack together a sweet little Asterisk video phone...or jam it in your car and play tux racer while you're stuck in traffic. :P Regardless, there would appear to be a lot more technology packed into these suckers... I'd have to imagine the potential performance differential of a 600 mhz (or a full ghz for $40 more) processor running DDR266 memory would be fairly substantial... Toys toys toys. Tis that time of year! Bryan Catlin wrote: >Well something else I see is there are no good and easy places to get the >Soekris boards in the USA, that I have come across. I did find a company on >the west coast Ituner http://www.mini-box.com/site/index.html that caries >the Wrap board and looks like they make a nice outdoor box for it. They do >not have any Wrap.1c (1/3) boards at this time (4 week back log) but do have >the (2/2) types in stock. > >I have not made my mind up yet but just got word from VIA about their dual >nic embedded board. Any one ever try this >www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_PD_spec.jsp?motherboardId=241 could >M0n0wall run on it? I'll bee willing to try and test if someone can help me >get it running. It has alot more I/O than I need and alot more peripherals >but also can handle alot more memory and cpu speed :) They say they have >the drivers at http://www.viaarena.com/ On that site they also say they are >working with Broadcom to standardize a gigabit Ethernet through PCI Express >x1 connections with the VIA K8T890 chipset. > >Any way I have a few extra days to get something going so if anyone can help >on this let me know I might get one just to play with. > >Bryan > >-----Original Message----- >From: C. Falconer [mailto:cfalconer at avonside dot school dot nz] >Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:32 PM >To: jesse at wingnet dot net; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Cc: sales at soekris dot com >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Re: Re: to Wrap or to Soekris that is my >question? > > >Yeah! Hey Soekris! Are you listening? > >Consider upping the spec of the ethernet cards in the new soekris board to >decent gig ethernet cards. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: news [mailto:news at sea dot gmane dot org] On Behalf Of Jesse Guardiani >Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2004 1:34 p.m. >To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: [m0n0wall] Re: Re: to Wrap or to Soekris that is my question? > > >Chris Buechler wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:28:13 -0500, Jesse Guardiani >><jesse at wingnet dot net> >>wrote: >> >> >>>So are you saying that the Soekris 4501 won't even route 100Mb >>>speeds? Or does the 4501 only have 10BaseT ports? >>> >>> >>They're 10/100 ports. Won't even get close to 100 Mb, though they >>fared better in Manuel's testing at 16-18 Mb. You bring up an >>interesting point though, with the really quite strange setup I was >>using to test, I have to wonder if one of the cards incorrected >>autonegotiated at 10 Mb. Regardless, you aren't even going to come >>close to 100 Mb. >> >> > >From my brief google searches, it looks like the Soekris boards use the sis >driver, and the DP83815 chipset. That sucks. I bet a decent fxp 828559 >chipset with link0 enabled (interrupt mitigation) would perform a lot >better. > >What is the ethernet chipset on the WRAP boards? > >-- >Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator >WingNET Internet Services, >P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 >423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) >http://www.wingnet.net > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > |