[PLUG] PCENGINES group order?

[Tom Sharples]

Were they using the older "wrap" board or the newer "alix"? The wraps did 
have reliability and performance problems. But we have hundreds of the alix 
3c/d boards in outdoor settings in widely varying temperatures runing Slack, 
and they have been rock-solid and quite speedy for us.

Tom S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Schafer" <xophere at gmail.com>
To: "Portland Linux/Unix Group" <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] PCENGINES group order?


> Oh perhaps it was somewhat climate and housing related then.  I suppose it
> depends on your use case.  If you don't cause any load on them I am sure
> they are fine.
>
> Which OS would that be?  There are many things that are great about Linux
> but I find your use of the term "modern" somewhat confusing.  Whether you
> are talking about the kernel or the user land would we really say that
> Linux is modern?  Free, powerful, familiar, robust, ?  I mean of the
> packaged router in a box systems I think it is really hard to beat 
> pfsense.
> And I have used most of them.  That said if you are gonna do it all from
> the command line it probably doesn't matter which one you use if it has
> crypto library support for the onboard chipset.
>
> The hope with these boards was that they had the cpu to do the vpn and
> routing we needed at the time.  If properly tuned they would just get by.
> But given the hot climate they were installed in perhaps the case and
> complete packaging where at fault there.
>
> I mean they are sort of between a full PC router and a linksys class
> OpenWRT box.  There was basically one OpenVPN setting that would work with
> the on board accelerator.  The rest would work but could only push like
> 50-80Kbits between the links.  No crypto was 2Mbit as was the one
> compatible library setting.
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