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The expressobin board has 3 NICs, runs a dual-core Marvell 3700, which is ARMv8, and has a crypto-offload on the SoC.

It sells for $49 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y3V2FBK

AES-GCM runs quite well on ARMv8:

https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_up...

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That's an interesting board, but it still only has one Ethernet interface, plus an on-board switch.

It has two, actually. I'm looking at the 3700 and some of the NXP CPUs for a 2018 "microfirewall".

We have a 3 port ARM board (one port has a switch on it) being announced on Thursday.

The device has 3 ethernet interfaces - one directly connected to the SoC, and the other two via an onboard switch.

That's not at all what the board's block diagram [0] depicts, but apparently they don't care to make that accurate. While the photographs do make it clear that there are three Ethernet ports, it's wrong to say that there are three Ethernet interfaces; the SoC only supports two and it's misleading to count the extra switched ports as extra interfaces because they do not even have the theoretical possibility of contributing to better routing capabilities.

[0] http://espressobin.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ESPRESSObi...

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