On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 07:20:40 +0200, Frank Schuhmann wrote: >Hello Everybody, > > @maarten > >It will fit any CF card in that is matching the standards seen on the >description an www.sokris.com under products choose net5501 read on the right >side of the page. >How many hours a card will be still alive, is at first a thing of the system >you >are using and installing on the CF card e.g. the writhe and read cycles. >As an good example if you install an OS and set up as service perhaps a syslog >server for many device in your network at one morning you will ask yourself >"hey >what is stinking here so horrible?" >And you know this CF card is gone to heaven. ;)
Rubbish! I have a net4801 with a CF (SanDisk SDCFB-512) that has been in it since new in May 2006. It was a lab test unit that acted as a firewall with OpenBSD on it. To try to deliberately burn out the CF the file system did not use noatime which would avoid timestamping every file every time it was accessed. It also had OBSD's spamd filter running in the most verbose logging mode. That was discontinued when we built a new mailserver which did its own spamd. That box has been running since May 2006 logging away and sending its mail and doing daily, weekly and monthly security checks. The checks are what generates the mail. Over 5 years of continuous service and still running. I don't smell any burning ......... You shouldn't believe everything you hear about CF. There are people who only remember the very early NVRAM devices and think that all the later developments have improved nothing. OTOH there are some brands ........... but I have had no probs with Lexar Photo CFs and SanDisk. I have two 5501s running as BGP routers with a very busy /21 IPv4 and a not so busy IPv6 /32. Really busy at times feeding a large hosting outfit. Original CFs still running and that is in mission critical service. I won't bet that no CF fails but dead ones are not thick on the ground. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I <am> subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the real thing. It is not even in Beta. If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
