[91083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fanless x86 Server Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Fri Jun 30 08:08:48 2006
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@digitalpath.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:01:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <0F2E946F-237F-4368-8CC7-900ACF4751A9@ca.afilias.info> (Joe
Abley's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:43:47 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> writes:
> On 29-Jun-2006, at 14:25, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>
>> We're looking to acquire a couple small servers that can act as
>> routers for
>> us at remote locations.
>
> How small? :-)
>
> http://www.compulab.co.il/x270/html/x270-cm-datasheet.htm
He wants x86; those are Xscale which is pronounced "ARM".
Besides, people like those x270 boards and think they're cool. Ray
specified "fanless" machines. I'm not sure why he wants hardware that
nobody likes, but maybe he's worried about theft in his deployment
environment.
---Rob
