On 3/20/2017 02:11, Julien Cigar wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 01:54:02AM +0100, Freek Dijkstra wrote: >> 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. > We bought 3 6501 2 years ago (for a redundant firewall/router + > HAProxy). One of them died after a year, got replaced under warranty and > died again 3 months later, another died just a few weeks agos, and the > last one suffer from this puzzling "error led" problem (works until > reboot, "sometimes" boot later, ...). > > I think there is definitively an hardware/BIOS issue with the board, I'm > confident that the problem doesn't come from the power supply or an > overheating from the CPU. > > As others I'm disappointed that Soekris is so silent on this issue, > especially if the root cause doesn't come from a broken bios/PCB > design/... > > As we run FreeBSD, we finally replaced those boxes with a RCC-VE 4860 1U > from Netgate (https://www.netgate.com/products/rcc-ve-4860-1u.html) I'm curious if ADI Engineering has addressed the issue that Intel identifed with the RCC-VE. Also curious if those issues with the Intel Avoton/C2000 chips is part of why the Soekris net6801 never went to production... > >> Regards, >> Freek >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
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