Alix.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Tom Sharples <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
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