Hi, > Have you experienced any problems with the PC2500 or the J7F4 boards? > I need to build a couple firewalls and those low-power boards look > great.
One J7F4 is up for replacement, as I couldn't get it to run as a CARP backup. It just wouldn't see the CARP-traffic. The replacement board (I simply ordered a new one) I still have to get into the rackmount case (Travla C147: dual mini-itx in 1U). Have been quite busy... Then there is the issue of having to set the media-options. I've ran with 3 of these boards, all of which had to have their media-options set in hostname.re*. I find that a really minor glitch, since they otherwise work perfectly (bar the CARP issue). You can find more about this in the archives. The PC2500 has been purring perfectly for about a month now. My AMD Sempron 2400+ decided to bite the bucket and lo and behold, I had this board laying around with some memory to spare. I had it for testing purposes and now it is just running 'production'. Apart from the builds taking somewhat longer, I fail to notice the difference between the two systems. No wait, it's QUIET! ;-) The Jetway boards (*not* the dual Gb NIC ones; look for J7F2) can be extended with add-on boards: up to three 1Gb NICs, serial ports, cardbus and then some. See http://www.picco.nl/index.php?cPath=37_116 for an overview of some of these. So, apart from one strange NIC thingy, all is well on my side. BTW: I'm running with the 25 Watts versions of the Jetway boards. There are 14 Watt versions these days. HTH... Nico
