Re: Advice or experience with VIA epia h/w?

[darknoth <darknoth@urbanet.ch>]

Dan Dulay wrote:

>I'm interested in replacing my system, and I've been looking at getting 
>a system based on a VIA epia motherboard. I'm curious if anyone could 
>share some advice or any good or bad experience with this hardware. 
>
>I am looking at PD motherboard with 2 interfaces. Does anyone know if 
>these motherboards have CPUs that support AES acceleration? I am also 
>wondering if I should wait for the CPUs that support RSA? 
>
>For the newest motherboard and chipset, does OpenBSD support SATA? 
>
>Thanks, 
>Dan
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I've got a couple of CL class mainboards (one CL6000 and one CL10000, 
both have dual lan adapters built in) which work just fine as routers 
under openbsd 3.6 with either CF flashcards mounted via IDE adapters 
from www.pcengines.ch  or with 2.5" hard drives. CL6000 being passively 
cooled is perfectly silent if you use a Morex power supply. Never had 
any glitches but you need 1.2GHz chips for AES support, anything below 
that has only hardware RNG built in.

Cheers,

darknoth