> 2.) Do any of you use a Soekris in an Enterprise environment now? > 3.) What about reliability? Since the Soekris runs OBSD, it can be > configured (with CARP, right?) to be redundant with another Soekris, > right?
Take a look at pfSense on these boxes. We have about eight Soekris Net5501's, all running pfSense. We like them because they're reliable, fanless, and have a built in crypto engine for AES128 and has a Hardware RNG, as well as 4 auto MDI-X Ethernet ports as well as PCI slot (to which we often add another 4 Ethernet ports). PfSense on the Soekris runs NanoBSD, and is a great way to run CARP, as well as more complex stuff like traffic shaping over multi-wan & bridged connections. Honestly the biggest reason we take this approach is less about cost (which happens to be far cheaper), but mostly because every time we need to turn up another solution, we don't have to waste our own time and attention on licensing, sales & support contracts. Also, by 'standardizing' on these boxes, we have been able to trivially keep a single cold spare for all of our installed base. In truth however, all we ever do with our cold spare units is use them for a head-start when we discover a pressing new need, (and of course order a new cold spare). -Karl p.s. pfSense has a great support community including OUTSTANDING paid support when we need it. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
