The ultimate OpenBSD router

Re:The ultimate OpenBSD router by walterbell on Sunday May 03, 2015 @05:55PM (#9483245)

Dell T20 Xeon with a Type-1 hypervisor to run the router VM, using VT-d to isolate a multi-port NIC to the router VM. The same box can run other VMs with FreeNAS, Linux, Windows, etc.

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Re:The ultimate OpenBSD router by dfc on Sunday May 03, 2015 @06:28PM (#9483339)

I guess I should have been explicit and stated I was looking for a comparable system that competes with the soekris. Does the dell t20 really count as competition to a soekris? A quad port intel NIC and a Dell T20 w/ Xeon is at least twice as much as this soekris. And then there is the whole issue of size:

             Dell  Soekris
  Width      6.89    11.40
  Height    14.17     1.41
  Length    17.15     6.11
  Volume  1675.31    98.21

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Re:The ultimate OpenBSD router by walterbell on Sunday May 03, 2015 @06:34PM (#9483359)

It depends on whether one also needs a NAS with RAID disks, or a Windows desktop, or a media server, or a personal cloud. If you need any of those, then there is nearly zero marginal size or cost to add a router VM, with more hardware headroom and OS flexibility than a special-purpose router.

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