[gentoo-amd64] Re: Machine recommendations?

[Duncan]

Benny Pedersen posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2015 10:44:57 +0100 as excerpted:

> On March 16, 2015 7:47:24 AM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>
>> So I'm simply going by what I know to be out there, actually available.
>
> http://www.soekris.eu/ if you want it ? :)
>
> there is more then one model, and its possible to build as needed, here
> i have a now end of life net4801 with 7 ethernet ports, will build
> something with it atleast for me to learn how to build a 10Gbe with
> gentoo, it just still a dream, but if one follow ones dreams it might
> come true one day

Interestingly enough, I had the soekris.com site (US) bookmarked.  A 
dream from some years ago...  Very nice indeed!  But also pricey!  The 
base board (with CPU and RAM) w/ 4x-gigabit Ethernet is over $400, near 
$600 in the 19" 1U case w/ power supply and room for two 4x-gigE PCIE 
cards ($134 each, separate).  That's with the maxed out 1.6 GHz Atom and 
2 gig RAM (soldered on).  Storage is separate.

So 1 less gigabit port than the 1+4 solution I'm looking at, and the 
populated board alone is over $400, or near $600 including case and 
power, while Thanasis' solution looks to be $325-ish for everything.

But if I had money, the Soekris solution looks very nice indeed, and the 
12-port model (4-port plus two 4x port addons) in particular would be way 
more compact than trying to do it with an mATX or the like, for sure!


(Didn't get much of the research I wanted to do done yesterday, and 
they're calling me in for a few hours on what would have been a second 
day off today.  But oh, well... delay and extra work means it's easier to 
pay off. =:^)

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