Hi Matheus,
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300:
> my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes
> and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial.
Saying "this kind of upgrade", you refer to the official upgrade
process, i presume?
The official upgrade process is completely trivial on any imaginable
kind of i386 Pentium II box, believe me. A Pentium II may seem old
to you, but for running a standard router, it is more than enough,
including the handling of the official upgrade process, of course.
The dmesg of my own three-leg (internal/dmz/Internet) statefully
filtering and NATing main router (saturating a 100 Mbit/s uplink,
about 200 user accounts in the internel network, about 50 users
regularly accessing us from the Internet, plus multiple web sites
and mailing list hosting) is included below.
Ya, i do have a couple of 600-900 MHz boxen on the shelf that
people have been throwing away recently, so i could upgrade for
free, but there's simply no need to hurry...
About five years ago, i had to use an old 486-SX25, 24 MB RAM,
Harddisk 160 MB (yes, zero dot one six Gigabytes) for the same
task. With 16 MB of RAM, i saw occasional shortages of memory -
although the users did not even notice that - but with 24 MB,
even that crappy thing saturated our 100 Mbit/s uplink just fine.
I just checked my notes, it was installed on May 13, 2001 with
OpenBSD 2.8, upgraded to OpenBSD 2.9 on June 3, upgraded
to OpenBSD 3.1 on June 22, 2002, upgraded to OpenBSD 3.2 on
Jan 17, 2003. No, for those upgrades with 160 MB of total disk
space, i could not use the official upgrade process,
go figure... :-)
But honestly, with any kind of Pentium II, what's your problem?
All the best for the New Year,
Ingo
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Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Serverbetrieb usta.de / studis.de
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OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #71: Tue Dec 4 02:15:05 CET 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 234 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX
real mem = 133787648 (127MB)
avail mem = 121483264 (115MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/18/98, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb480
apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle)
apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xb8f8
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdc40/128 (6 entries)
pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 10 11 15
pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:07:0 ("Acer Labs M1533 ISA" rev 0x00)
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Acer Labs M1541 PCI" rev 0x04
agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xe0000000, size 0x1000000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Acer Labs M5243 AGP/PCI-PCI" rev 0x04
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Acer Labs M1533 ISA" rev 0xc3
rl0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 15, address
00:e0:7d:93:13:e7
rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
rl1 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 11, address
00:e0:7d:93:13:ea
rlphy1 at rl1 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
rl2 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 10, address
00:e0:7d:93:13:e6
rlphy2 at rl2 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE" rev 0xc1: DMA,
channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MPB3032ATU E>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3093MB, 6335280 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0/48 iomem 0xa0000/131072
wsdisplay0 at vga0 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
biomask 73fd netmask fffd ttymask ffff
softraid0 at root
dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
