On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Sean Kamath <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ended up buying direct from PC Engines for my alix 2d13's. Even though I'm
> in the US, it was cheaper than netgate (where I bought a bunch of the exact
> same thing for work). I ended up getting the red metal cases because they
> were cheaper and in stock. ;-)
>
> And as far as I'm concerned, these little alix boards rock.
Just to throw fuel on the fire, I've got a 10+ year old Soekris
net4501 that still works as a home router. The onboard battery died,
and the clock loses ticks quickly enough that I'm using rdate in cron
to correct it.
Outside of that, I found that npppd, when running l2tp for the system,
can cause the kernel to hang so thoroughly only a power off can fix
it. I'm still diagnosing it, but I'm assuming it's a problem with the
CPU being overwhelmed with decrypting/encrypting traffic. Eventually,
I'll catch the crash and get a backtrace on console (I've reenabled
snapshot debugging and DDB to get this) for the devs.
But, 10 years old and still running full network loads at home. I
can't complain about the hardware.
OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC) #8: Tue Sep 4 02:16:50 MDT 2012
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 ("AuthenticAMD" 486-class)
cpu0: FPU
real mem = 66646016 (63MB)
avail mem = 54689792 (52MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 20/50/27, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
[...]
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-004G>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA48, 3815MB, 7813120 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
