Cheap board with several LAN / good hardware for OpenBSD firewall?

datanoise

Hello

I'd be interested to build an OpenBSD firewall/QoS/etc for a small network.

Is there good hardware that you'd recommend?

I'm looking for something stable, with low power consumption, silent, with more than 2 LAN ports (or at least 2 LAN, or ability to add a more easily (PCI) and.. as cheap as possible.

alix2d13 (http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm) seems interesting as it has 3 lan ports so it would allow to plug two devices without the need for an external switch.

Jetway NF9HQL (http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NF9H.html) is nice too, with an atom and 4 LAN but quite expensive...

There are many cheap arm boards but almost none of these come with 2 (or more) LAN ports.

An Atom based board with the ability to add a couple of network cards might be a good way to do that but would take quite some space...

Any good gear I should consider? (Anything available second hand would be great)

Thanks!

brian777

There is many option on supported OpenWrt routers, but however it's just linux.

shell

quick search at aliexpress

HCIPC M503-1 LAN-HCM52L26B,Multi lan AtomD525 6LAN Motherboard,Mini ITX Motherboard,Firewall motherboard,Firewall Server,Router
http://s.aliexpress.com/IVZbU7re

4*Ethernet Lan Mini PC Idustrial Routers J1900 Quad Core Celeron desktop computer 2.0Ghz windows10 Vga USB RJ45 Com
http://s.aliexpress.com/RvQfmYBV

2017 J1900 4 Lan Ports Motherboard, four gigabit ethernet Mainboard, Fanless MINI ITX Mainboard Pfsense Linux
http://s.aliexpress.com/RRVRfmU3

2017 J1900 4 Lan Ports Motherboard, four gigabit ethernet Mainboard, Fanless MINI ITX Mainboard Pfsense Linux
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/32782991772/32782991772.html

datanoise

brian777 said: There is many option on supported OpenWrt routers, but however it's just linux.

Yeah, there are many OpenWRT compatible router, that would be very cheap and effective but I'd prefer to use a BSD than OpenWRT.

shell said: quick search at aliexpress

Nice, didn't consider Aliexpress. Some models you found there seem rather interesting. Thanks!