Some friends brought to my attention this baby from SuperMicro:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm
Low power, acceptable performance, 2x gbit lans with NAPI and not a bad price.
All in all, we can bolt together a nice dualcore MT router for about 500$
google “MikroBits Ainos 2071”
Totally different ballpark, with c2duo cpu, 60w idle consumption, but not a bad idea aswell.
Alternative to rb110 has to be power efficient - so Intel Atom makes sense.
We are using the SuperMicro D525 boxes for small servers and they work great. Currently we have two set up as Asterisk servers and one running as our UPS shipping server. I have plans for many more.
I have tested ROS version 5 on them and they work fine. But they only have two ethernet ports. If Mikrotik released a 4 port PCIe 10/100/1000 NIC, that would make the Supermicro more interesting as a router.
But there are many Atom based devices out there and some are more suited to becoming a router.
Like this one: http://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/roc-box-D510.html
Tom
Take a look at this: http://www.axiomtek.com/Products/ViewProduct.asp?ptype3=232&pos=6&ptype2=231&ptype1=209
Supermicro has 2x10GE and 4xGE PCIe NICs:
http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UTG-i2.cfm
http://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-i4.cfm
Well, taking into account, it is only an Atom cpu, and total routing capacity will not reach 1gbit, we might connect internal nic to 5 or 8 port VLAN switch and move on.
I wonder if RB250GS would fit that use?