I have a number of the Alix boards (3 personally at the moment) and I am real fan. I have run a variety of distros on them, specifically ZeroConf, OpenWRT, Voyage (a Debian distro with some customizations to run from a CF card and to support things like the Alix and Soekris specific hardware, like the LEDs on the ALIX), and. I believe that IPFire even has a release designed to be installed on the Alix boards, though this I have not tested. I long ago moved away from IPCop.
I used one my Alix 2D2 boards this past weekend to load balance 3 3G connections for a gaming booth at the Entertainment Expo. Worked like a charm. My one complaint is that they top out at 100 Mbit. This is currently not a huge issue since I tend to use them at the edge of the network, but since Shaw is now offering (and delivering) 100 Mbit connections, we are close to reaching the limit of these things (even with the on-board AES hardware accelerator they cannot do wire-speed VPN so for some applications we have exceeded their capabilities). I can bring one of mine in for the next meeting if you want to have a look and play with one before purchasing. One other option is routerboard. Theirs are ARM based (instead of the x86 Soekris and Alix). On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:22 AM, CITS - Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using Endian for some time now. At one client I have 1 green, one > red 1 orange zone setup with a web server and a wireless Nic for my private > use only. I've had minimal problems and only 1 failure following an automatic > update to the blacklist a few months ago. Highly recommended IMHO. > > > Dave Watkins > > 1-403-701-5746 > [email protected] > www.calgaryitservices.com > > Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity. > > On 2011-06-21, at 0:12, Neil B <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking at building a firewall type appliance on a small form factor >> hardware. I currently have a linksys wireless router with openwrt but I want >> to replace it. >> >> Looking at something like IP Cop for the software end and looking for >> something somewhat quiet and greenish on the hardware end. I'm looking for >> success stories and/or failures as far as what worked and what didn't. >> >> Any information/recommendations would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Cheers! >> >> ~Neil B. >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
