From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 1 12:47:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09AE209 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:47:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com (mail-wg0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458CCB1C for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id fg15so2325943wgb.13 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:47:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Qbuhe5SuGggE6Se0TWdb+cb99+5MkfQ4AzPnpgcPVH8=; b=o6SEOhg7EQ2CP71jRJdbwIg963n3vWkUQMkO/BN4ELJSTSfy2JuCBz0X7MY8wuzLQy N3Gc1rVpcgkYF29nUR9t7AeMYydu3r/XgUBypKnUryvo/ykFQadnLQ/J7IlJJMw95/q5 Z+MaxsiTp4306DHNZv3UjQqjJ2IwgZ5apy+qL21VKSs1lJLALjtfHtk3lGZKtWiLrd3g sZAOp5As1qk3zup4Co4WM+QBofJX7o56/wjmj5WKj3m2tHqPXSdIOWrFRHjpNl3ud6gg G6SzasvFcZ+t9RGZU7DZF2F2IhpWqJ0cV6L3IH6BbHMxqlMTzwHe4C9uunFZ1lYabjRL sebA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.77.129 with SMTP id s1mr17427412wjw.17.1362142076953; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:47:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.194.60.147 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 04:47:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <51309C7B.1050804@qeng-ho.org> References: <513087A1.3020308@ulb.ac.be> <51308973.3010301@undermydesk.org> <51309C7B.1050804@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:47:56 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Soekris or .. ? From: David Demelier To: Arthur Chance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Julien Cigar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:47:58 -0000 2013/3/1 Arthur Chance > On 03/01/13 10:56, Frank Reppin wrote: > >> On 01.03.13 11:49, Julien Cigar wrote: >> [...] >> >>> I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which >>> support FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ? >>> >> I once had FreeBSD (7-CURRENT days) running >> on ALIX boards [ https://shop.tronico.net/ ] >> for quite a while (mini server). >> No problems at all. >> > > I'll second that. I've had an Alix board running pfSense as my > router/firewall for several years now with zero problems and any downtime > was due to upgrading the system or power cuts. > > The manufacturer's web site is at http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm I also have an alix at home running yet (Alix 2d2). It's a great one and I made an uptime of 500 days with FreeBSD 8.1 the last year :-). It does not consumes a lot of power ressources neither. However I advise only network gateway / firewall / wifi access uses point because of the small RAM available. It works out of the box with FreeBSD, only ACPI need to be disabled (for a date issue only). Cheers, -- Demelier David