I am using x86.  Local college tossed a whole bunch of low end machines (ran
XP) and I picked up a couple dozen.  3 Towers are sitting side by side in
the shelves - 1 running Dude and the other 2 for spare hardware.

I would imagine you could do the same thing with random garage sale PCs, but
I'm not sure how happy MT would be with bridge/chipset changes.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]>wrote:

>  I don’t mind Windows Servers – have been running them for many years for
> all critical web hosting, RADIUS, mail, etc.  Key to Windows servers is
> configuration and lockdown – only run minimal services, good firewalling,
> don’t overload, etc.
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>
> Are you running Dude on x86 ROS or on an RB?
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:51 AM
>
> *To:* WISPA General List
> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation
>
>
>
> I've only rebooted mine for upgrades and enabling/disabling ntp/routing and
> such. I hate having Windows servers to support, it may just be me but I feel
> they always cause more problems then they solve - ESPECIALLY in time.
>
> I really hate the storage issues, though.  Backups have to be done manually
> - keep that in mind!
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
>  On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Oh, I remember now.  Dude from time to time would just stop responding for
> no real reason and we had to bring down the router to get it going again.
> We had it running at that time on a router that wasn’t critical, but became
> real inconvenient to reboot.  It got to the point that it was becoming a
> daily thing so we dropped it on RouterOS and went back to WinXP.  If I go
> back to RouterOS it will be on a dedicated RouterOS system just for Dude.
>
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> We never figured out what was going on with it when it would quit
> responding – worked with Mikrotik support a little bit on it but we weren’t
> interested in spending much time on it – we just moved on to a different
> setup.  That has been a couple of years ago so things may have changed since
> then.  We also would lose all history when we restarted RouterOS, but I
> think that was because it was not configured correctly, or because we were
> running it on an RB433.  At any rate it probably wasn’t a big deal to work
> around / fix if we had spent some time on it but I just decided to move it
> back to an XP box and go on.
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:32 AM
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>
> *To:* WISPA General List
> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation
>
>
>
> Web interface is on mine, ROS 3.30 Dude 3.6.  I check it with my Droid X
> from time to time.
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Wish I would remember.  I’ll try to look / think back and see.  It may have
> to do with the web interface, but maybe not.  Ug!  J
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:28 AM
>
>
> *To:* WISPA General List
> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation
>
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>
> What features?  It's the exact same application.
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jason Hensley <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I had issues with Dude on RouterOS, but for the life of me I can’t remember
> what they were.   I don’t think it was performance – had more to do with
> features available or something like that.  I know I moved off of RouterOS
> back to an XP machine.
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:53 AM
> *To:* WISPA General List
> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik Dude 2GB Limitation
>
>
>
> Use RouterOS?
>
> On Oct 19, 2010 8:46 AM, "Paul Hendry" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
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> >
> > We have been using the latest beta version of the Dude to
> > monitor bandwidth on some devices and have hit a slight snag. It seems
> > that when the SQLite back-end database hits 2GB it will no longer run.
> > File system is NTFS so it shouldn’t be an issue from that point of view.
> > Anyone know what the issue is likely to be and any possible work
> > arounds?
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> >
> >
> > Many thanks,
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