Thanks for the comments. I'm quite happy with OpenBSD, and would need a compelling reason to move away from it. So I'm not looking for tailored network appliance distributions. I just want to make sure there aren't any serious hangups with the current hardware and OS iterations.
I did notice the page for the 6501. It looks like a pretty big step up from the 5501, though I'm not sure I would make much use of the extra power. Gigabit ethernet is sexy and all, but I've never needed that kind of transfer rate across the router - my desktops and file server are all on their own switch behind the router's NAT, and I haven't even bothered upgrading that to 10/100/1000 yet. Any word on what pricing is going to look like? If it's no more than $100 or so, I might do it, provided the hardware compatibility is good. It doesn't seem like it would be worth much more than that in my situation. I did read that Soekris wiki page as well, so I know there are some other odds and ends like the com port to deal with, but that should be fine. The CF corruption is more troubling, though. Is that a common issue? I know CF isn't really designed to be an OS's boot drive for a variety of reasons, but I haven't followed the details so much. Suppose I wanted to move up to a SSD instead? Is that just a matter of buying Soekris's 2.5" SATA mounting kit and popping in something like this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167044 ? Any other power or configuration issues to deal with there? The last time I followed hardware tech closely was right before SSD's became affordable, so I don't know a lot about them. --Todd _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
