On 20-03-2017 00:49, Jay Grizzard wrote: > I haven't fired up my 6501 to check the exact CPU model (...anyone want > to buy it? It's of no use to me since Soekris never released the > information needed to work with the FPGA), but I wonder if this could > possibly be what's going on with them: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/
That article seems only related to the Intel Atom C2000. The net6501 contains an older Intel Atom E640, single chip processor with EG20T companion chip. Of course, that doesn't exclude the possibility that something similar is the cause. At least the lesson I learned from Dries is that it really is related to the CPU, not to the power (as was previously suggested), and that it might reboot if cooled down for a sufficiently long period of time. Well, mine stopped working last December after 5 years of operation as my home router. I replaced it with something else (a Ubiquity EdgeRouter), but I still had it lying around (mostly because I wanted to reuse to two mSATA disks, which seems uncommon these days) Well 3 months of cooling down should be sufficient, so I couldn't help to check what happens if I fire it up again, and to my surprise, it did boot all the way just a few seconds ago! Not that it matters much, I guess it still is a bit too unreliable to my taste. Regards, Freek _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
