I had some of them, too, running for years. The only problem I incurred was with a Flash memory that degraded after a while, so I would really recommend some of thoses "industrial grade" flash memories. The hardware is superb. Peter nate wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: > >> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? >> >> I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used >> primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need >> recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need >> two NICs. >> > > Go with Soekris, they are built for that purpose. You can even > get an SSL accelerator card for them. Mine has a ~500Mhz AMD > Geode CPU, 512MB ram, I added a 1GB CF card, it has 4x100Mbit > NICs, it has a slot for a PCI device, I put a bracket with > another serial port on there to hook to a UPS, has a USB port, > and a serial port for console access, draws a tiny amount of > power. > > I don't consider linux a good platform for firewall or VPN > devices myself, I use OpenBSD, with pf. I have an OpenVPN > from my soekris box at home to my co-located server(runs > Debian), have had it hooked up for almost a year now, works > great. I don't need the SSL acceleration card as my commit > rate at the colo is only 1Mbit, so I don't want to push a lot > of traffic. > > http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm > > These things are designed from the ground up to be firewall/VPN > appliances(low end mind you, your not gonna be pushing gigabits > of traffic through them). The CPU on mine doesn't even have a > heat sink. > > nate > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Dott. Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH Via Johann Kravogl-Str. 2 I-39012 Meran/Merano (BZ) Email: peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com Tel. : +39 0473 494949 Fax : +39 0473 069902 www : http://www.r3-gis.com