Were they using the older "wrap" board or the newer "alix"? The wraps did have reliability and performance problems. But we have hundreds of the alix 3c/d boards in outdoor settings in widely varying temperatures runing Slack, and they have been rock-solid and quite speedy for us.
Tom S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Schafer" <[email protected]> To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [PLUG] PCENGINES group order? > Oh perhaps it was somewhat climate and housing related then. I suppose it > depends on your use case. If you don't cause any load on them I am sure > they are fine. > > Which OS would that be? There are many things that are great about Linux > but I find your use of the term "modern" somewhat confusing. Whether you > are talking about the kernel or the user land would we really say that > Linux is modern? Free, powerful, familiar, robust, ? I mean of the > packaged router in a box systems I think it is really hard to beat > pfsense. > And I have used most of them. That said if you are gonna do it all from > the command line it probably doesn't matter which one you use if it has > crypto library support for the onboard chipset. > > The hope with these boards was that they had the cpu to do the vpn and > routing we needed at the time. If properly tuned they would just get by. > But given the hot climate they were installed in perhaps the case and > complete packaging where at fault there. > > I mean they are sort of between a full PC router and a linksys class > OpenWRT box. There was basically one OpenVPN setting that would work with > the on board accelerator. The rest would work but could only push like > 50-80Kbits between the links. No crypto was 2Mbit as was the one > compatible library setting. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
