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If 100M is enough for you, I'm developing a new board with 2 RJ45 for industrial ethernet, which has a 40 pin connector compatible to that of RPi B+, but the circuit is adapted from beaglebone black. It's scheduled for end of January 2015.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X9RrbkUpiTQ-S6Acken-5fv7...

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I'm very interested in your board as it would probably make for a great *BSD firewall, do you have any contacts? as I cannot find any on that page.

Not sure what your budget (power or $) is, but I use this for an almost identical situation:

AMD fanless barbone w/ dual NIC (Jetway $215) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856107...

SSD 64GB ($62 sandisk) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4UB22Z51...

4GB RAM (no ECC) ($38 gskill) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...

So, $315 and ~15W max. I bet this could serve a small office well. Someone should get this down to $200 with minimal specs (and no video or audio).

It has dual Realtek NICs; it runs pfsense and openVPN well, and you can also run squid and snort if you're into it (I haven't learned how to use them yet, but I plan to).

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