Some friends brought to my attention this baby from SuperMicro:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 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"

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.

Some friends brought to my attention this baby from SuperMicro:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... 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$

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/routerb ... -D510.html

Tom

Take a look at this: http://www.axiomtek.com/Products/ViewPr ... ptype1=209

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.

Supermicro has 2x10GE and 4xGE PCIe NICs:
http://www.supermicro.nl/products/acces ... UTG-i2.cfm
http://www.supermicro.nl/products/acces ... -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?