On 5/6/2014 2:16 PM, Vick Khera wrote: > I have the dual ALIX RM1U box from netgate which is a bit over 2 years old > now (and an older one too!) > > Has anyone attempted replacing the ALIX boards with APU2 boards? They > appear to use the identical openings and case mounting holes. > > Netgate themselves doesn't sell such a beast so it made me curious as to > why they wouldn't sell a version with the board swapped and instead > recommend other devices. > > Also does anyone know of a crypto accelerator board for the APU2? Or is > that even worth the effort for 4 home-office OpenVPN tunnels? > >
The APU boards require a heatspeader that makes the space between the board and the case larger. They APU use taller standoffs. You can fit the APU into the the ALIX case, but you'll end up bending the circuit board, or loosing the heatspreader, neither of which are likely to make you happy. Modern CPUs are typically much faster than crypto accelerators. By the time the data stream goes into the pci-express bus and back out, it could already have been processed. For 4 openvpn tunnels, it wouldn't be needed. The ALIX rack mount case, as the same issue as the as the individual cases, the standoff heights are wrong, for the APU with the heatspreader. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
