Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Martin Dahlem
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Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Scott Gustafson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/2016 03:33 AM, Martin Dahlem wrote: > ... we have chosen to abandon Soekris since. Can anyone on the list share which vendor, model, and OS to which they have switched? I switched from Cisco devices over to Soekris so that I could better

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:53:27 +0100 Muffinman wrote: > I have a net6501 which was supplied with the original heatsink. After > all the reports of failing net6501's, I began to develop some fear for > its life, especially since it is suggested the failures are related to >

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Atrens
On 2016-02-22 6:33 AM, Martin Dahlem wrote: > I think I have had about 25-30 net6501 during the last 4 years. About 10 of > those where from the first time of life, with the very simple heatsink that > where only a black plate. > I have had massive issues with them failing, so we have chosen to

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Sebastian Gebhard
Same problem here. In December I lost two of those boards after 4 years of service and Soekris also refused to replace them. Both of them were running fine until I did a power cycle. After that only the Error LED came on and no BIOS on the console. Even a new PSU did not help. My net5501's on

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Muffinman
I have a net6501 which was supplied with the original heatsink. After all the reports of failing net6501's, I began to develop some fear for its life, especially since it is suggested the failures are related to overheating and in particular this older type of heatsink. I emailed Soekris with the

Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

2016-02-22 Thread Colin Petrie
On 21/02/16 23:26, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > There's a bias problem here: You're only going to hear from the > people who lost machines, not from those who didn't. To provide a datapoint: we manage/operate something like ~170 net6501-70 units, and ignoring SSD and PSU failures, I think we've