On 2022-09-29, Holger Glaess <glaess@glaessixs.de> wrote:
> hi
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> The Banana Pi R3 can be an alernative for PC Engines APU but,
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> sadly , no support by openbsd , just linux.
Doesn't seem to be available yet anyway?
> https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3
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> Holger
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> On 28.09.22 16:27, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using PC Engines for years. I have many of them. I want to buy more,
>> but they are not available on their main web site. I'm still planning to
>> buy them the moment they will show up on https://www.pcengines.ch/order.htm
>>
>> However, after many weeks of waiting, I finally reached a point, when I
>> need to look for alternatives, as few of my hobbyist projects and plans
>> are on-hold for too long.
>>
>> I'm looking for something similar like PC Engines APU board. Preferably
>> 4 network cards, 4GB of RAM, low power consumption, no graphic card,
>> serial console access, suitable for wired and Wi-Fi and/or LTE router,
>> based on OpenBSD.
>>
>> To give you an example, I have or had in the past, PC Engines with
>> OpenBSD as:
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>> - plain simple Ethernet router
>> - fiber + Ethernet router
>> - Wi-Fi access point via Ethernet uplink
>> - Wi-Fi access point via LTE modem uplink
>> - WireGuard, OpenVPN endpoint
>> - DNS, DHCP, TFTP and PXE server
>> - print server and scanner via CUPS and SANE
>> - HTTP server, plus some automation daemons
>>
>> Very typical stuff, nothing unusual I would say. I usually duplicate
>> above setups in various locations, like family house, relatives, and my
>> own place, but.. I run out of simple and reliable hardware to run it on,
>> hence this post. I don't want to run full blown PC, because of
>> electricity consumption and graphic card. In case of kernel panic() I
>> want to have a system with serial console, by design on motherboard,
>> not something additional.
>>
>> From architecture perspective I think most practical is amd64, but maybe
>> well supported arm64 would do. If you want to put RPi in the picture, I
>> don't think about it, as it has only one Ethernet interface.
>>
>> PS: Please CC me in any replies.
>>
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