Reply to post: Re: @ pfSense, SuperMicro, Synology & others

Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit

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Re: @ pfSense, SuperMicro, Synology & others

There is something VERY interesting in the post on the pfsense blog:

"[The systems that experience the problem] will not suddenly stop working, but if the component fails, the system will not successfully reboot"

This is the first time somebody has said this clearly (from the Cisco FNs it is not clear whether the devices just stop, or they work properly until rebooted).

If the people at Netgate are right, this might be bad news for people running affected gear. Because it means that the problem could remain hidden for months or years - until you have a power failure (or you initiate a firmware upgrade), and poof! there go both your primary AND your backup unit... (be they spines, NASs, firewalls, or anything else)

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