[178196] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Denys Fedoryshchenko)
Thu Feb 19 14:32:51 2015
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:32:48 +0200
From: Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3309.1424363182@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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On 2015-02-19 18:26, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:52:42 +0000, David Reader said:
>
>> I'm using several to connect sensors, actuators, and such to a private
>> network, which it's great for - but I'd think at least twice before
>> deploying
>> one as a public-serving host in user-experience-critical role in a
>> remote
>> location.
>
> I have a Pi that's found a purpose in life as a remote smokeping sensor
> and
> related network monitoring, a task it does quite nicely.
>
> Note that they just released the Pi 2, which goes from the original
> single-core
> ARM V6 to a quad-core ARM V7, and increases memory from 256M to1G. All
> at the
> same price point. That may change the calculus. I admit not having
> gotten one
> in hand to play with yet.
Weird thing - it still has Ethernet over ugly USB 2.0
That kills any interest to run it for any serious networking
applications.
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Best regards,
Denys
