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Nice spec. 2x Ethernet?! Custom router possibilities abound.

More expensive than Pi however. I can get an entire pi for the same price as this module,

The 2x Ethernet is a little quirky in implementation: Internally, the CPU only has one ethernet MAC, which is connected to a switch on the same die. In practice, linux sees two ethernet ports, but this is implemented by VLAN tagging on the internal switch. So if you think you have two actual ports and want to interact with VLANs, you're gonna have a bad time.

And the performance isn't very good either from what I have heard. It is a good candidate if you want to try and make something cheap, but few (none?) of the offerings really are (olimex has one if anyone is interested). Personally I am pretty tired of the Linux ecosystem in general. It is pretty well known that you can ship broken stuff by slapping an open source sticker on it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Lots of compromises in the sbc space. A lot aren’t required but cost is the most common factor.

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