Martin Haufschild wrote on 08/26/15 12:11:
can someone recommend me an Industrial PC (IPC) to use with OpenBSD? I
would like to have a lot of hardware supported from this IPC by OpenBSD.
I've had great luck with Lanner (http://www.lannerinc.com/).
I've been running a LEC-2280 and FW-7541 for almost 2 years now for my
business. They run the local network and public ecommerce website. The
LEC is the main server with an Intel Core i7-3555LE @ 2.5GHz. The FW is
the firewall/gateway running other light services, like DNS and NTP,
with an Atom D525 1.8GHz.
I set them on top of a cabinet in a closet and just forget about them;
nobody knows they exist. I haven't physically touched them since I
installed them almost 2 years ago. The ambient temperature ranges from
about 70-90F. These two boxes always stay cool regardless of the temp;
plus these machines are fanless so they don't suck dust.
I interconnected them with serial cables to assist with out-of-band
maintenance. For instance, I SSH into one machine, then connect via
serial to the other for console access. That's been working out really
well through 3 or 4 upgrade cycles now.
With the maximum RAM and best CPUs at the time, the LEC-2280 and FW-7541
were about $1200 USD and $400 USD, respectively. I would highly
recommend them. Plus, their customer support was very helpful. Their
tech support even tests and runs OpenBSD, which is what sealed the deal
for me.
http://www.lannerinc.com/products/embedded-box-pcs/industrial-automation/lec-2280
http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/desktop/fw-7541
