On May 8, 2014, at 12:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi we are french resellers of Alix / APU > > > Le 6 mai 2014 à 21:16, Vick Khera <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> 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. > > This is true.
PC Engines updated their cases about 9 months ago. Cases older than this are about 1mm too small. > APU1C comes with an iron plate to be sticked below the APU in order to > dissipate the heat. Iron? It’s a heat-conductive pad, with an aluminum plate. >> 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. > > I can’t really tell why NetGate does not resale APU1C http://store.netgate.com/APU1C.aspx (board only, 2GB ram) http://store.netgate.com/APU1C4.aspx (board only, 4GB ram) http://store.netgate.com/NetgateAPU2.aspx (system, 2GB ram) http://store.netgate.com/NetgateAPU2.aspx (system, 4GB ram) > Currently there is a problem with the MSata sold by PCEngines which does not > support TRIM - this has a limited effect on pfSense where TRIM is not > activated by default. That being said It is not really « normal » for an > MSata device not to support such function and might reveal some other > problems… though so far we have noticed 0 problem on such device. These cards DO support TRIM, but you have to correctly install software on the device to have it be stable. We are working on a “platform specific release” of pfSense for the APU> > We have updated the firmware of the 10 units we have received so far. > We are currently testing the unit with quite good results considering the > price. > >> 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? > > You really don’t need such item - processor is strong enough to handle any > kind of local VPN (our test shows about 80Mb/s with an OVPN tunnel)… We’re testing 67 Mbps using UDP over OpenVPN AES256. AES-128 is about 78Mbps. But “don’t really need” is strong language, and to be clear, I disagree. My connection from my house is faster than this. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
