Laurent Salle wrote:
> Richard P. Koett wrote:
>> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a
>> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact
>> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9.
>> The user complained that Internet access se
Richard P. Koett wrote:
> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For
> storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first
> attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that
> Internet access seemed slow, however. I'm pla
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Richard P. Koett wrote:
The user complained that Internet access seemed slow
[snip]
Any other advice would be appreciated.
Leave the Soekris in place tomorrow but tell the user the original
device is now back doing duty. See if he reports the network
speed as improved.
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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:00:01 -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote:
>Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
>> I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would
>> install on a HDD.
>>
>Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying
>through a Chinese server that's on your blacklist
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:40:20AM +1000, Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:28 -0500, David Bryan wrote:
>
> >The other reason for not mounting the CF in a read/write mode is that CF
> >has a limited number of write cycles (~10,000 gate transisitions).
>
> I have a 4801 with CF
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:00:01PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote:
> Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
> > I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would
> > install on a HDD.
> >
> Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying
> through a Chinese server that's on you
One thing that I would really recommend is looking into using the
compact flash with the memory file system. For a first install or
if you have phyiscal access to the box, a laptop HD is just fine,
but when it is sent to a far away place, where power- or heat can
effect it, always use a CF
Rod.. Whitworth wrote:
> I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would
> install on a HDD.
>
Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying
through a Chinese server that's on your blacklist. Anyways, what
special sauce are you using to install to CF?
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:28 -0500, David Bryan wrote:
>The other reason for not mounting the CF in a read/write mode is that CF
>has a limited number of write cycles (~10,000 gate transisitions).
I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would
install on a HDD.
Partitio
Richard P. Koett wrote:
I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For
storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt
I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet
access seemed slow, however. I'm plann
On 2006/10/04 11:40, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> As for your other questions, there was particular mention of e-mail
> seeming slow. My first thought was that I was filtering IDENT
> connections without sending a reset packet (yes, I'm using pf) but
> that wasn't the case. DNS hasn't changed. I'll ch
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> Based on other people's responses it sounds like no kernel
> customization is even required on this device.
I started out using flashdist on mine, but switched to a standard
installation on a 1G flash card (/ mounted rw,noatime,so
"Richard P. Koett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I'm setting up a Soekris
net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE
drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install
of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed sl
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> I thought that since I'm not using compact flash (and don't care about
> writing to disk) I'd have no need to "build a filesystem in virtual
> memory"?
Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2006/10/04 10:42, Richard P. Koett wrote:
>> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a
>> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact
>> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD
>> 3.9. The user complained
Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> The Soekris kernel configs from flashdist are the best way to go. You
> do not need to remove the MFS option but I would add the
> FFS_SOFTUPDATES option. The MFS option is used for building a file
> system in virtual memory. It has nothing to do with compact flash
> cards
Chris Kuethe wrote:
> Theo builds my custom kernel... it's called GENERIC. I've been running
> GENERIC on a CF-based soekris (both 4501 and 4801) for about 5 years
> to no ill effect.
>
> CK
Chris:
I'm a pretty big fan of Theo's kernels as well. I just wasn't sure if
this particular device neede
On 2006/10/04 10:42, Richard P. Koett wrote:
> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a
> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact
> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD
> 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed s
The Soekris kernel configs from flashdist are the best way to go. You do
not need to remove the MFS option but I would add the FFS_SOFTUPDATES
option. The MFS option is used for building a file system in virtual
memory. It has nothing to do with compact flash cards. Those are still
supported using
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