[91084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fanless x86 Server Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Fri Jun 30 11:06:19 2006
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:05:37 -0400
To: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@digitalpath.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060629182501.GA29754@digitalpath.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 02:25 PM 29/06/2006, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>We're looking to acquire a couple small servers that can act as routers for
>us at remote locations.
>
>To minimize hardware issues, I'd love to get something that has no fans, can
>still run a fairly decent processor and preferably no hard drive (easy with
>an IDE CF adapter).
>
>It would need a couple PCI slots for quad port ethernet cards and a fairly
>robust tolerance to temperature variations.
Many mini-itx boxes dont have 2 PCI slots. You might be better going
with a mini-itx solution and then use a small switch and trunk the
NIC to act as a VLAN router. We have been using various embedded
devices from Commell
(http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-667.HTM). They seem to work
well and can deal with 45C operating temps and have decent hardware
watchdog support (FreeBSD version at http://www.tancsa.com/watchdog/).
---Mike
