On 10/02/2017 21:11, [email protected] wrote:
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.
20Mbps download 1Mpbs upload. At that point the cpu consumption was at
100% interrupt time using a pretty simple ipf based firewall
configuration. The NetBSD driver doesn't support the interrupt
mitigation functionality of the network interfaces but when I ported it
in (from OpenBSD) it didn't make that much difference. I'll see if I've
still got the code somewhere and if I have I'll post it.
Mike
Thanks,
udon
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:18:05PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote:
On 10/02/2017 19:26, [email protected] 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
