Openfiler Forums / Installation on Intel SS4200

https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=9883#p9883 SS4200 is an Intel NAS enclosure for around $200, specs: 1G Ether, 4xSATA HDD, 1.6 intel celeron CPU, 512 MB RAM. Comes with some linux firmware or windows home server. This post tells how to install openfiler on it.

Best hardware for maximum throughput and PPS performance | Quagga | Users

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/16802 email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )

Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info

Why power failures are bad for your data

http://www.halfgaar.net/why-power-failures-are-bad-for-your-data artilcle tells what happens when u pull the plug … in short nothing good will happen, so use UPS! read article for details

[x86 booting] The Kernel Boot Process

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/kernel-boot-process 3rd article – explains how linux kernel boots

[x86 booting] How Computers Boot Up

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up 2nd article, the 1st is at http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/motherboard-chipsets-memory-map

Beer, Coffee, and a little DSP » Blog Archive » Low Power Asterisk - 4 telephones on 3W

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=61 IP04 (embedded asterisk on blackfin board ) power improvements

10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf paper describing linux 10G ethernet performance as per RFC2544

Xen: assigning PCI devices to a domain - BeSTGRID

http://www.bestgrid.org/index.php/Xen:_assigning_PCI_devices_to_a_domain how to “export” raw pci device to xen DomU

Newegg.com - JetWay J7F4K1G5D-PB VIA NanoBGA C7 Processor VIA CN700 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo - Motherboard / CPU / VGA Combo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153062 looks like a good candidate for embedded linux networking stuff