Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 04:09:37PM -0700, Jerome Ibanes wrote: > Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? > > Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm > Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 > > The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from > Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. We have 20..30 of those boxes and they just work. They have the regular, high SuperMicro quality. I would not they less than Soekris. Grtnx, -- B*E*R*T ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
Hi Jerome, > Jerome Ibanes hat am 19. Oktober 2015 um 01:09 > geschrieben: > Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? > > Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm > Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 > > The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from > Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. I am using one of them and pretty happy. IMHO it's a good Soekris replacement. Cheers Conrad ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
Hi Conrad, What about Serial console, especially for the BIOS? -Dan On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:26 AM, wrote: > Hi Jerome, > >> Jerome Ibanes hat am 19. Oktober 2015 um 01:09 >> geschrieben: >> Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? >> >> Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm >> Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 >> >> The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from >> Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. > > I am using one of them and pretty happy. IMHO it's a good Soekris replacement. > > Cheers > Conrad > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:26:33PM +0200, ck+soekrist...@bl4ckb0x.de wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > > Jerome Ibanes hat am 19. Oktober 2015 um 01:09 > > geschrieben: > > Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? > > > > Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm > > Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 > > > > The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from > > Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. > > I am using one of them and pretty happy. IMHO it's a good Soekris replacement. > I'm replacing my 6501 with a 1U SuperMicro Atom box that's router specific. By router specific I mean that the chassis mounts backwards so the ports are on the front. For me the advantages of the SuperMicro are Price and Expansion: o Price: The SuperMicro box was $349 in 1U form with is about the same as a 6501 in the non-rackmount chassis. The 6501 in rackmount chassis is over $100 more expensive; o Expansion: The SuperMicro box takes standard RAM so I can side the RAM to my needs are commodity prices. My box has 4GB of RAM. The power requirements are between the two comparable at 20W. As far as quality goes I would have to say that both seem equal and the SuperMicro may have the edge. I'm rather happy not to have my hands cut up by the sharp edges inside the Soekris Chassis. -- Chris __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*).___o..___..o...ooO..._ Christopher Sean Hilton[chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] pgpugjzVLDUN3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:33:26AM -0700, Dan Shechter wrote: > Hi Conrad, > > What about Serial console, especially for the BIOS? > If you look at the pictures of that box behind the links you'll see that it has a front panel DB9 serial port. When I setup my SuperMicro machine, which is earlier but similar, I setup the serial console on OpenBSD without trouble. Managing the the BIOS via serial doesn't seem to be an option but out-of-band access is no problem. -- Chris __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*).___o..___..o...ooO..._ Christopher Sean Hilton[chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] pgpU7F7IJ4Aqy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On 2015-10-19, Dan Shechter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:26 AM, wrote: >>> Jerome Ibanes hat am 19. Oktober 2015 um 01:09 >>> geschrieben: >>> Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? >>> >>> Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm >>> Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 >>> >>> The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from >>> Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. >> >> I am using one of them and pretty happy. IMHO it's a good Soekris >> replacement. > > What about Serial console, especially for the BIOS? > > -Dan They have a BIOS option to set them to use serial console, it's not active by default so you need to plug in a keyboard or use IPMI for initial setup. Watch out for IPMI on these. This usually *is* enabled by default, setup with a common default admin password, and to share the first main NIC if nothing's connected to the management port, leaving access to the console/power/etc a lot wider open than you probably want. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On 10/19/15 10:02 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:33:26AM -0700, Dan Shechter wrote: >> Hi Conrad, >> >> What about Serial console, especially for the BIOS? >> > > If you look at the pictures of that box behind the links you'll > see that it has a front panel DB9 serial port. When I setup my > SuperMicro machine, which is earlier but similar, I setup the > serial console on OpenBSD without trouble. Managing the the BIOS > via serial doesn't seem to be an option but out-of-band access is > no problem. SuperMicro boxes are good at that. Also, it would appear, from the specs page, that it actually has on-board IPMI, which for Supermicro boxes of my acquaintance means it's probably got on-board iKVM too. Nice little box! -- "" -SD ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
When I originally saw this thread I didn't think much about it but given my experience, it makes sense. I'm not sure that there's a place in the market for the Net6801. Consider that there are several Intel Atom based machines which are only slightly more expensive than the current Net6501-70. Many of these machines are based on motherboards designed by and build by or for Intel. These machines take commodity RAM and Power Supplies so they are cheaper to initially configure and to maintain. Purchase cost in order: Net6501-50, standard case: ... $346 / $163 Net6501-70, standard case: ... $470 / $39 Net6501-50, 1U case: . $473 / $36 SuperMicro SYS-5018A-FTN4, 1U case, no RAM: .. $509 / Net6501-70, 1U case: . $597 / -$88 The problem with the Net6801 is that there is no price point for it. -- Chris __o "All I was trying to do was get home from work." _`\<,_ -Rosa Parks ___(*)/_(*).___o..___..o...ooO..._ Christopher Sean Hilton[chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com] pgp3nLWHXAL7U.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
