Thanks for the info... I will stay away from Jetway. Are there any limitations to what these ALIX boards can do or handle in terms of traffic? I'd like to do some load balancing, run SMTP spam filter and IDS on it. I have no need for wireless. Which board do you recommend?
-----Original Message----- From: Vick Khera [mailto:vi...@khera.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:35 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Intel Atom Motherboards or Similar Systems On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Chuck Mariotti <cmario...@xunity.com> wrote: > I have been looking at Jetway and Intel boards. > I had been running a NAS box using FreeNAS on a Jetway board with a VIA cpu. It worked great for about 14 months, then the ethernet went bad. And then shortly after that the other ethernet went bad. My colleague who built the twin box to mine had the same experience, about 2 months later than I. The warrantee on those boards was 12 months. Read up on the interwebs to see others discussing the reliability of the jetway boards. Then decide what to buy. FWIW I replaced my jetway with a VIA board. The good thing about the VIA CPUs is you have the padlock crypto hardware built in, which pfSense supports (since FreeBSD supports it.) For my pfSense systems, I've been using WRAP boards (which are now replaced by ALIX) with great success with the embedded pfSense distro. Having no moving parts is a great, great thing.... One of them is pushing 700+ days uptime running about 7 IPsec tunnels (I really need to schedule time to upgrade that to 1.2.x) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
