About six years ago, I had a motherboard start to flake out in my home firewall, which had always been an old gaming PC with a bunch of NICs and OpenBSD- basically whatever hardware was free when the old one died.
I decided the power I was using to run those old desktops justified the expense of buying some more efficient hardware, and decided not to build another zombie desktop firewall. So I went shopping for a new home firewall, something with at least four gigabit ethernet interfaces and low power usage and OpenBSD-friendly. I dug for a long time before I found Soekris! I bought a 6501 and installed the brand-new OpenBSD 5.2 release. It just worked great, and every time my network grew a physical segment, or I needed a new VPN, or I came up with some crazy new packet filtration scheme to play with, or my internet bandwidth increased, the little 6501 never broke a sweat. A week ago it died suddenly. Red Light of Doom. I swapped power supplies and replaced all its electrolytic capacitors, and it is still not willing to boot. So since soekris is no more, I guess I am out. Thanks to everyone on the list. My new OpenBSD machine will be an Edgerouter 6P, mostly because the PC Engines APU4Cx is out of stock for a month plus. On the up side, I get to try out an entire architecture I've never used before. It will be a tiny adventure for me. Thanks for being my soekris buddies all these years; I have read a lot of messages with interest. Maybe I'll see some of y'all wherever Ubiquiti octeon people hang out!
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