[conspire] Quiet, Freedom-compatible NAT/firewall/misc box?

[Tony Godshall]

Good points all.

Thanks for the cogent response.



On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Tony Godshall (togo at of.net):
>
>> I'm thinking of a raspberry pi 2 for such an application. Not 100% freedom
>> but the proprietary stuff is in the video.
>
> The other disturbing software bit (for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B), as I
> mentioned separately, is the ongoing kernel situation.  You're probably
> thinking 'At last, a Pi that I can run the standard Debian armhf ('HF' =
> hardfloat) port on.'  Well, kinda, almost.
>
> With the standard packaged Pi distros, you'll get kernel 3.18, but it's
> not the standard kernel by a long stretch.  An experimenter reported
> that he had to apply 'stack of patches on top from the raspberrypi
> github repository' to the corresponding Debian packaged kernel, and then
> further tweak the result a bit.  Plus some other non-kernel changes.
> Details here:
> http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/
>
> Me, I'd just not be entirely happy with being on hardware the mainline
> Linux kernels doesn't know how to support, that requires a whole bunch
> of out-of-tree patches all the time.  (It seems that _all_ ARM boards
> involve this drawback.)
>
>> USB Ethernet for the second port might be a deal killer but I've had
>> pretty good luck with them.
>
> Dodgy technology and also CPU-intensive on a machine that doesn't have a
> lot of grunt to spare.
>
> But the biggest single omission in the I/O department is SATA.  Having
> nothing better than a Micro SD port and USB2 is this unit's chief
> and most egregious hardware limitation.  The 1GB RAM is understandable,
> but the lack of even mSATA is puzzling and means you are permanently
> stuck with only crappy mass-storage connectivity.
>
>> And cheap and highly replaceable.
>
> That's the good news.
>
> I don't think it's adequate for a router, but standard differ.
>
>
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