So long and thanks for all the fish!

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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!

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<div dir=3D"auto">About six years ago, I had a motherboard start to flake o=
ut 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.<div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I decided the power I w=
as using to run those old desktops justified the expense of buying some mor=
e efficient hardware, and decided not to build another zombie desktop firew=
all.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">So I went shopping =
for a new home firewall, something with at least four gigabit ethernet inte=
rfaces and low power usage and OpenBSD-friendly. I dug for a long time befo=
re I found Soekris!<div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">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.</div=
><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">A week ago it died suddenly.=
 Red Light of Doom. I swapped power supplies and replaced all its electroly=
tic capacitors, and it is still not willing to boot.</div><div dir=3D"auto"=
><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">So since soekris is no more, I guess I am out.=
=C2=A0 Thanks to everyone on the list. My new OpenBSD machine will be an Ed=
gerouter 6P, mostly because the PC Engines APU4Cx is out of stock for a mon=
th plus.=C2=A0 On the up side, I get to try out an entire architecture I&#3=
9;ve never used before. It will be a tiny adventure for me.=C2=A0</div><div=
 dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Thanks for being my soekris buddi=
es all these years; I have read a lot of messages with interest.=C2=A0 Mayb=
e I&#39;ll see some of y&#39;all wherever Ubiquiti octeon people hang out!<=
/div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div></div></div>

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