Re: [leaf-user] Soekris replacement revisted

[Robert K C. J. -I. F. D. Corp. <bco...@in...>]

In the same vein as the Qotom boxes (and inspired by that exercise) I 
acquired a Protectli FW4B through Amazon.  My default Leaf version 
worked fine on it, but ended up loading ESXi (initially 6.7, but I've 
since downgraded it to 5.5) and I'm running three Leaf instances on it. 
Without an external data store, or for anything that requires a lot of 
processing power, I wouldn't recommend this configuration, but for two 
firewalls and a utility Leaf VM and no I/O to the flash except at boot 
time or when I update the Leaf config, it has thus far worked without 
issue.  For ESXi 5.5, I did have to load a VIB to allow it to recognize 
the SATA controller.

Like the devices Mr. Wegner has been using, it is basically a low 
powered PC snapped into a heat sink that acts as the case, with 4 Intel 
NICs.

Like Mr. Wegner, my main concern is durability/reliability.

- Bob