Well yes. :) Plenty of relatively inexpensive x86 based kit out there. Maybe with TPM? Never looked. Atom can push a good amount of packets. I am in the process of building an HCL for the various bits of the FreedomStack. (CPE/distribution/core etc). My family is a very heavy internet user. Both directions. An atom pfsense router and netgear 3800 has done the trick. Now to package them up with a slick / simplified / turnkey configuration and not have people balk at the price. I hadn't taken much security/TPM wise into account. Would be a good way to help folks deal with the increased expense. NSA proof, Snowden endorsed! :) On July 25, 2014 6:42:13 PM CDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:11:29 -0500, charles@thefnf.org said:
On 2014-07-25 12:22, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
The second big challenge is that to the best of my knowledge, there exist no router-class hardware that includes a TPM chip,
OpenWRT x86? Run it on a decently specced laptop a couple gens old (like a Dell Latitude 6500 or so). That's got TPM, plenty of ram. Of course you can run on a server board (Dell Poweredge or something). I prefer pfsense myself for full blown kit.
Yeah, but it's hard to justify a PowerEdge for a Joe Sixpack consumer CPE (admittedly, I managed to leave that phrase out of 'router-class', mea culpa).
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