Spotopolis

... I dont. I dont know how that became a thing.

I just men "AC" as not running on battery.

The android tv sticks run on ac power only. It would be a stationary solution. Just low profile and low power. You can run smoothwall on a P133 with 128MB ram so why not a build for an ARM device running a dual core A9 1.6ghz with 1GB ddr3 and an 8GB nand? I already run a netgear with ddwrt for wifi and an old P4 extreme running my current smoothwall build. Just want a smaller less power hungry setup.

The whole point was wanting to do this without a big desktop eating power though. With the MK808 that's all you'd need aside from two USB to Ethernet adapters. Its already a full PC and it only needs 5v 2 amp. Theses other devices sound like the still need a PC to run...?

Not so much for portability although that would be interesting, but more for a super small super low power device that still works as a great firewall/router. I figured since Linux/Android is so flexible that it could work. I know you don't need much at all to run smoothwall and I thought a dual core arm with a gig of ddr3 would do the trick.

So I just got a MK808 Android TV stick. And I have seen on the freaktab site that they are working on a linux kernel to run Ubuntu off it. It got me thinking since you can run a USB hub on these things with Ethernet, Would it be possible for someone to "port" Smoothwall to one of these sticks and use it as a firewall/router? Im using Smoothwall at the home now running out of an old power hungry P4 extreme system. I thought that it would be great if I could run Smoothwall from this tiny stick and all I would need it 2x usb to Ethernet adapters. Using only 5v 2 Amp would be amazing. And I figured with the power these little things pack that Smoothwall could work on them. Is this at all possible? I know there is a big difference between ARM and x86 CPUs and that could stop it dead there. Im not to savy with Linux, but I can use it. Just a thought. Its a neat idea.