• pelya
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    4 months ago

    Tech specs are right in between ESP32 and Raspberry PI Zero. This would make a nice OpenWRT router or torrent server, if you can solder some external Ethernet chip on it.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Is it really enough for a router? Does it have any hw acceleration for cryptography or network routing?

      I have a pretty modern AP and sufficient managed switch that never crashed in 8 years, but my router is the bottleneck WITHOUT any analytics, logging or more involved security features.

      • pelya
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        44 months ago

        Yup, Cortex A7 has some crypto HW acceleration with Neon extensions

        https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A7

        But routers typically won’t decrypt any traffic, they just route it. Bus, RAM and cache speed is more of a bottleneck.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          Yeah I’m thinking more in terms of UTM. It’s been a project of mine to have an enterprise-like network while using prosumer or SMB hardware. Always looking for efficient upgrades.

      • @TCB13
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        14 months ago

        Only if it had 128MB of RAM.

  • @TCB13
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    14 months ago

    This is a very cool device however it would be nice to see it with 128 or 256M of RAM.