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William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > 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 > > > Does this board have the same problem? ALIX.2D3 System Board: (3/1/256/LX800) |