Re: NetBSD on a Soekris net4801

[udon%sdf-eu.org@localhost]

Mike,

If I may ask, what was/is your network speed? I read in the smallwall (www.smallwall.org) documentation that throughput maxes out at around 40-50 Mbps. 
This could be an issue since mine reaches 91 Mbps at times. 

Thanks,
udon

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:18:05PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/02/2017 19:26, udon%sdf-eu.org@localhost wrote:
> >Hi all, I'm thinking of running NetBSD on a Soekris net4801. It has
> >128 MB RAM and 1 GB CF card. Does anybody have experience running
> >NetBSD on these machines? Do I need a custom kernel for the AMD Geode
> >CPU on the machines? Is there a good way to reduce wear (for example
> >swap use) to increase the CF card's life? Thanks, udon
> >
> Did it for years without any issues on NetBSD 6 right up to the point where
> I replaced that machine with something a little faster (it was my firewall
> and it was struggling to keep up with my DSL link at full speed :( ).
> 
> No custom kernel required. Geode works out of the box on NetBSD 6. Can't
> remember if I ever got as far as NetBSD 7 before I replaced it.
> 
> Only tricks I really did to reduce CF wear was to mount the filesystems
> noatime. Other than that I treated it entirely normally.
> 
> Mike