[TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for router, dhcpd/named, firewall

[Greg Brown]

You can order the case and power supply for Soekris themselves.  The cases
are not much larger then the boards themselves.

I'm not sure about DD-WRT but the White Russian release of OpenWRT somehow
stumbled upon a major bug with the Broadcomm chip set that was rebooting the
APs after a certain amount of traffic flowed through.  Supposedly the
Kamikaze release of the OpenWRT code fixes the bug.  I have yet to upgrade
my OBX APs hence they are rebooting and rebooting and rebooting and
rebooting...

Greg

On 8/3/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
>
> I'd be interested in playing around with their wireless boards. where
> did you guys score a small case / power supply for this from? ideally,
> the smaller, the better...
>
> Recently, I ran into a slew of issues with my DD-WRT, and I'm wondering
> if its time for my WRT54gs v2 to go to the big Cisco in the sky....
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Greg Brown
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for
> router,dhcpd/named, firewall
>
> I can't say how well it works being an access point as I have only used
> m0n0 as a firewall/router.  What I can say about m0n0 and Soekris is I
> have NEVER had a hardware or software failure that has required human
> intervention (i.e.
> manual reboot).  So far, knock wood, they have all been up and running,
> churning along without fail for over three years.
>
> Greg
>
> On 8/3/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Any idea how well m0n0wall works with a Soekris AP? We're looking at
> > putting up a wifi hotspot in a low-income subdivision with a single
> > (3mb/384kb) DSL for connectivity. I've been getting recommendations to
>
> > install a 54G (or 54L, rather) with DD-WRT. Is there a better way of
> > doing this perhaps? It may end up being an outdoor unit sitting on a
> > pole, but we haven't done the site survey yet.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level
> > of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:13:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for
> > router, dhcpd/named, firewall
> >
> >
> > On 8/2/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Good point, a couple years go Evil Mike posted something in his blog
>
> > > on
> > a
> > > conf file in OpenBSD that would essentially make the OS read-only
> > > and
> > not
> > > write to the CF card.  He was using the old OcuStat (from Oculan)
> > hardware..
> > > grrr... where is that link....
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Another vote for a Soekris.  I bought a used 4801 with 3 extra LAN
> > ports off ebay recently and have OpenBSD installed on a CF card.  I
> > followed the directions here to mount everything read only:
> >
> >
> > http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~adamo/howto/OpenBSD/OpenBSD-3.9_Soekris-
> > 4801.html
> >
> > As to the sis(4) throughput issues, I know the OpenBSD team has put in
>
> > a lot of work on that driver in -CURRENT (actually 4.2 just went into
> > beta).  Per the changelog, http://openbsd.org/plus.html
> >
> > "Enable interrupt holdoff on DP83816 sis(4) chips. Significantly
> > improves performance of such devices under load."
> >
> > More discussion about the sis(4) driver for OpenBSD 4.2 are in the
> > comments to this article here:
> > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070802060056&mode=flat
> >
> > My Soekris is only being used on my home network, so I can't speak to
> > its performance under heavy load, but I noticed a real increase in my
> > traffic speed after switching from my WRT54G.
> >
> > Chess
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