Re: So long and thanks for all the fish!

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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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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 d=
ug
> for a long time before I found Soekris!
>=20
> 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 nee=
ded a
> new VPN, or I came up with some crazy new packet filtration scheme to pla=
y
> with, or my internet bandwidth increased, the little 6501 never broke a s=
weat.
>=20
> 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.
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> So since soekris is no more, I guess I am out.=C2=A0 Thanks to everyone o=
n 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.=C2=A0 On the up side, I =
get to try
> out an entire architecture I've never used before. It will be a tiny adve=
nture
> for me.=C2=A0
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> Thanks for being my soekris buddies all these years; I have read a lot of
> messages with interest.=C2=A0 Maybe I'll see some of y'all wherever Ubiqu=
iti octeon
> people hang out!

Hi all,

I had a similar experience with 4 4801/5501 w/ HDU running for years, havin=
g
=C2=A0hdu dying by consumption while motherboards run flawlessyflawlessly. =
Then all
the stuff
=C2=A0was dismissed after 5 years of work.

Pity that Soekris went out of business so badly. Their products was
=C2=A0expensive but (at that times) awesome!

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