Hi List, sorry first for aswering not in a short time, but for this and the other messages I was asking three other peoples first, from them I know exactly one is using not only one net5501 and only on work!!!
Example 1: A Security administartor working in a greater insurance company. Many (20 - 25) net5501 with an GB LAN Port PCI card as snort sensors for Host based IDS (Servers) and Network IDS (Switches) The boxes are still placed in a closed up rack in a climated server room (0 till +2 Celsius) Only one PSU were replaced till today. One CF card must also be changed, but this is not couting, because soekris is not the producer! The other both opinions, I will show up in the next post, to much and to long so I will split the posting. At their website soekris is telling something about for what the boxes are to use: 1. Small net services 2. Small routers / servers / vpn / wlan With low power consuming parts. All parts soekris were producing, I mean all the lan and all vpn cards are using low power and dont overheating the soldered on chips from the cards and the boards. Now perhaps some people (surely like me too) were thinking that the cards we insert in, are also using low power, but the chips are overheating or the chips are heating to much the air inside the case. And in my opinion it dosen´t matter that we opend the case, because if a chip is to hot, he is to hot, point. So in my opinion soekris is selling hardware for they descript it on their homepage. An Intel Pro 1000/GT Desktop adapter as a WAN port many, many people use with their net5501 and they don´t flooding the list with their problem, because they have to find out by themselves what is to hot and what runs smooth on the machine. If I´m informed right their are more then 20.000 sold boards and boxes and I think it must be connected to the hell, that only you got two boxes they are malformed or tuched by this error. And if so, why one of this boxes was running with an uptime till over a year? Most forums I view from time to time or have a look in are filled with thoose messages, but never, I repead, never in direct context with the soekris produced lan and vpn cards, even with other low power, but overheating cards or too many services. At this point also it is not unusual thoose people (also likes me, Alvar Kusmar and many other) are having a look to other producers like MikroTik or PC Engines (Alix). But Soekris is also offering on their homepage also custom made cases made from different materials and there are also from other vendors and traders like <www.yawarra.com.au> and <http://soekris.kd85.com>. Alix - solid aluminium cases For smal routers or firewalls amd only at home use please. If an electrical strike hits the building or 19" rack, the aluminium cases will smelt in seconds and spread out, if the rack is not closed with a front door, very hot liquid aliminium. This can harm human beings and other devices. And to prevent the employees and devices from damage is also perhaps a administrative job. To store this aluminium cases in professional network enviroments or infrastructures not to be recommend, and this only in my opinion. - Not able to store a hdd inside - only 256 MB of ram - No pci slot MikroTik - metal plate based cases For professional use or also called productive network systems. Hard and software came from one company under one direction and a under one concept. No overheating problems but also not the range and so many options like the other both above delivering and serving. Those chips that can be going hot, because the machine is hard in use are sorted with an passive heat sink and some of their wlan routers give you the abbility to insert 1 - 5 wlan cards and no thermal problem. - Training for the os is expensive - dont let you use much more hardware - not so many services like other delivers ! - stable and compatible to all supported hardware - prof. support - each system needs a licence that must be paid Soekris inc. - Solid metal plate based cases For all, having fun, playing, testing, home use, office use and professional use. >From the day he was soldering the first boards in his living room at home till today the company was growing up and also the boards became more powerful. The company is selling boards, cases, lan and vpn cards and supports much operating systems and many, many other hardware. - for each level of need and use - low power using - spare parts from own production - nice price - more ram like alix - more powerful then the most MikroTik devices So in my opinion only the overheating parts like cards from other vendors are the usual suspects in this game. __________ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6693 (20111208) __________ E-Mail wurde geprüft mit ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
