Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, I think this was a smart move. When I saw the original announcement for the 6801, I thought it was a bad idea. That kind of CPU with the support chips it needs is not cost effective. I hope they switch to a 64 bit arm design. Good day, Ralph

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Vadim Troshchinskiy
On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 12:55:49 PM Ralph Green wrote: > Howdy, > I think this was a smart move. When I saw the original announcement > for the 6801, I thought it was a bad idea. That kind of CPU with the > support chips it needs is not cost effective. I hope they switch to a > 64 bit

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2015-10-06, Vadim Troshchinskiy wrote: > Besides, Lanner seems to have something out already. These Rangeley-based systems by ADI Engineering seem to be actually available and in quantities down to 1: US: http://store.netgate.com/Production-Systems-C209.aspx EU:

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, On the low end, I would say a Banana Pi R1 router is comparable. I have one and it has problems, but is usable. I have only used it on slow networks(like 4 mbps down and 1 up. Cnewer chipsets with eight 64 bit cpus should be able to keep up with much faster traffic at low power. Ralph

[Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Vadim Troshchinskiy
I just saw the news on soekris.com This is very unfortunate. I was looking forward to it, as my net6501-70 has been having trouble keeping up with my fiber connection. Are there any other plans to release something more powerful than the net6501-70?

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Dan
Guess I picked up my used net6501-70 on e-bay just in time! Has anybody experimented with PCIe ethernet switching cards? I have been looking at the DualComm DCP-1004(L), which might be a nice way to do switching through my net6501 without using the onboard CPU for layer-2. I was having trouble

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:09 +0200 Vadim Troshchinskiy wrote: > On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 04:38:51 PM Stephen Mintz wrote: > > I am crushed as well. Hoping to retire my 5501-70. I hope Soekris > > reconsiders. > > Me too. The hardware certainly needs an upgrade. Here I am

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Vadim Troshchinskiy
On Tuesday, October 06, 2015 04:38:51 PM Stephen Mintz wrote: > I am crushed as well. Hoping to retire my 5501-70. I hope Soekris > reconsiders. Me too. The hardware certainly needs an upgrade. Here I am starting to see ads for 300 Mbps fiber and the old hardware just won't do for that. It's

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Stephen Mintz
I am crushed as well. Hoping to retire my 5501-70. I hope Soekris reconsiders. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015, 9:33 AM Vadim Troshchinskiy wrote: > I just saw the news on soekris.com > > This is very unfortunate. I was looking forward to it, as my net6501-70 has > been having trouble

Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.

2015-10-06 Thread Dan
It's in the "Latest News" column of the Home page: " Latest News *October 6, 2015:* Development of the net6801 has been shelved indefinitely due to high production and component costs. We appreciate your interest." On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:24 AM Nenhum_de_Nos