On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 23:47 -0500, Chris McGee wrote: > About six years ago, I had a motherboard start to flake out in my home > firewall, which had always been an old gaming PC with a bunch of NICs and > OpenBSD- basically whatever hardware was free when the old one died. > > I decided the power I was using to run those old desktops justified the > expense of buying some more efficient hardware, and decided not to build > another zombie desktop firewall. > > So I went shopping for a new home firewall, something with at least four > gigabit ethernet interfaces and low power usage and OpenBSD-friendly. I dug > for a long time before I found Soekris! > > I bought a 6501 and installed the brand-new OpenBSD 5.2 release. It just > worked great, and every time my network grew a physical segment, or I needed a > new VPN, or I came up with some crazy new packet filtration scheme to play > with, or my internet bandwidth increased, the little 6501 never broke a sweat. > > A week ago it died suddenly. Red Light of Doom. I swapped power supplies and > replaced all its electrolytic capacitors, and it is still not willing to boot. > > So since soekris is no more, I guess I am out. Thanks to everyone on the > list. My new OpenBSD machine will be an Edgerouter 6P, mostly because the PC > Engines APU4Cx is out of stock for a month plus. On the up side, I get to try > out an entire architecture I've never used before. It will be a tiny adventure > for me. > > Thanks for being my soekris buddies all these years; I have read a lot of > messages with interest. Maybe I'll see some of y'all wherever Ubiquiti octeon > people hang out!
Hi all, I had a similar experience with 4 4801/5501 w/ HDU running for years, having hdu dying by consumption while motherboards run flawlessyflawlessly. Then all the stuff was dismissed after 5 years of work. Pity that Soekris went out of business so badly. Their products was expensive but (at that times) awesome! -- +----- http://www.winstonsmith.org -------------¯\_(ツ)_/¯--+ | il Progetto Winston Smith: scolleghiamo il Grande Fratello | | the Winston Smith Project: unplug the Big Brother | | Marco A. Calamari [email protected] http://www.marcoc.it | | DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B | + PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 ----------+
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