Re: Dying net6501 servers

I too have suffered the RLOD too. Given my needs, I replaced the router 
with a Turris Router <https://www.turris.cz/en/> . Its not as powerful, 
but has far better support and good enough for my needs.

regards

Robert

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On 27 Feb 2016, at 22:02, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

> On Sat 20 Feb 2016 04:43:32 PM Ben Kochie wrote:
>> Hey soekris-tech,
>>
>> I bought 5 net6501-70 servers just over 3 years ago to be used as 
>> routers
>> and utility servers.
>>
>> They were mostly flawless for that time, but over the last few months 
>> 3 of
>> them have died with the red error light and no BIOS post information.
>>
>> Sometimes they will boot up if you unplug them for a few days and 
>> then try
>> again, but they flake out after a few days of running and then won't 
>> boot.
>>
>> I contacted support, and they confirmed that they were all out of 
>> warranty
>> and they were likely not repairable. :-(
>>
>> Has anyone else started seeing failures of their net6501 servers?
>
> Mine /just/ died. Tried a second PSU that I know works, and still 
> nada. RLOD
> (Red Light Of Death). It was working, then I changed something and 
> rebooted,
> and it wouldn't boot up. So I've replaced it with a VM on another box. 
> It's my
> firewall so I needed something asap that wasn't installed on either of 
> my
> server's host-os installs.
>
> -- 
> Thomas Fjellstrom
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