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I don't know about Bill, but we're on a recent enough BIOS to allow us to run m0n0 on the board. I don't know if it's the latest or not, but I know it was released within the past 6 months. BIOS updates probably won't fix this problem, I believe, as power cycling the board and re-seating the network cables do not bring the ports back online. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sterling Windmill [mailto:sterling dot windmill at custdata dot com] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:00 AM > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Tough sell to my boss > > I use an alix2c3 with m0n0wall in production and have had no such > issues. Are you using the latest v0.99h bios? > > > > > Sterling Windmill | Systems & Technology > Custom Data Solutions, Inc. > > 410 S. Main St | Romeo | MI | 48065 > 586-752-9671 ext 161 | fax: 586-752-6589 > toll free: 800-441-9595 | fax: 800-383-4551 > www.custdata.com > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender > that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise > protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the > person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended > recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any > action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly > prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the > sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email > from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you > may have printed. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William F. Dudley Jr." <wfdudley at gmail dot com> > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:33:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Tough sell to my boss > > This may count as topic hijacking, but . . . > > I certainly wouldn't recommend trying to build a production router > using the Alix > 2C3 board. I and others have had mysterious failures (the ethernet > ports just > stop working) and I have not seen a solution. > > I'd dearly love to be using my Alix 2C3 board with m0n0wall, but the > flaky hardware > makes it unusable, and I feel I've thrown away a couple hundred bucks. > So I keep > using an ancient P75 running LRP ("linux router project") that refuses > to die. > > If anybody has heard of a fix to the flaky Alix boards I'd love to > hear about it. > > Bill > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Peter Pauly <ppauly at gmail dot com> > wrote: > >> My boss is the type of person who would rather pay more (loads more) > >> for a Cisco ASA because paid support can be found for it and there > are > >> "lots of people who know how to support it". I need to counter these > >> arguments in order to implement m0n0wall. > >> > >> 1. Are there any companies in the USA supporting m0n0wall (paid > support)? > >> > > > > Yes, under pfSense support subscriptions we also support m0n0wall. > > https://portal.pfsense.org > > > > and we send money to Manuel for any m0n0wall support sold. The > support > > initially started off on a project-neutral site for pfSense and > > m0n0wall both, but the support demand has been almost exclusively for > > pfSense to date. > > > > The site doesn't mention m0n0wall support (yet, lack of time), but > > we're the best qualified option available for m0n0wall commercial > > support (and actually the only one I know of, aside from a number of > > consulting companies who provide support for their local/regional > > customer bases). > > > > m0n0wall isn't some esoteric system that requires specialized > > knowledge to run. Anyone who can admin a commercial grade firewall > > through a web interface can admin a m0n0wall. > > > > > >> 2. What major (well known) companies or organizations (Universities, > >> etc) are using m0n0wall in production? > >> > > > > Wow, a lot... but specifics... my memory of who runs m0n0 and who > runs > > pfSense is running together. Most of the big ones tend to use pfSense > > because they need redundancy that CARP provides, and/or need a larger > > state table but don't want to recompile the kernel. Three I know of > > offhand that are publicly known are parts of the University of Texas, > > Purdue, and one of the datacenters that hosts part of foxnews.com, > all > > running pfSense. There are several state government agencies across > > the US using it also, and a few Fortune 500 companies, as well as > > countless small to medium businesses. I can't specify any of those as > > that isn't public information, the ones I identified you could find > > yourself searching mailing list and forum archives. > > > > I personally have m0n0wall deployed in several dozen small businesses > > and it just works, and people love it. It's a proven solution. > > > > -Chris > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |