Re: Tuning a soekris 4501

[Adrian Portelli <adrianp%stindustries.net@localhost>]

Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a Soekris 4501 that I use as a gateway/NAT/Firewall machine. I 
> was going to upgrade to the 5501, but haven't seen any evidence that it 
> will work with NetBSD-4.
>
> But apparently the 4501 should handle this task just fine:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.netbsd.users/browse_thread/thread/7fd6ef59dfff9fc5 
>
>
> Is there anything I can do to realize better performance from this 
> hardware? Or should I look to upgrade?

Have a look through the archives of the tech-embed@ mailing list:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-embed/2006/11/06/msg000896.html

Also WRT NetBSD on the 5501:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-embed/2007/06/19/msg001032.html

adrian.