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. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
