[Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Hi I uses many, many 4801 and 5501 as VDSL routers and firewalls running various releases of OpenBSD. I never used a 6501 with OpenBSD as VDSL router/firewall. What are people's experiences with the net 6501 and (recent) OpenBSDs, for firewalling and VPN purposes? - thx

Re: [Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread Nikola Gyurov
Been running 5.4 without any problems, on a 6501-50 box with + 2.5 HDDs in softraid1, using it as a firewall/mail server/VPN/ssh proxy/nfs (storage connected to the external USB). So far it's doing well. It IS going to be hot tho :/ Currently it's idle (i.e. load 1%) and the Atom is running

[Soekris] general impressions of network throughput

2014-03-16 Thread Malcolm Herbert
We will be soon getting a 25Mb/s link and I was wondering what max throughput people had found for various models of Soekris boards - I have some 4801s and a 5501 at the moment but was concerned that these might not have the grunt to cope, especially as it would become my end of a PPPoE link and

Re: [Soekris] general impressions of network throughput

2014-03-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 07:59:01AM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote: We will be soon getting a 25Mb/s link and I was wondering what max throughput people had found for various models of Soekris boards - I have some 4801s and a 5501 at the moment but was concerned that these might not have the grunt

Re: [Soekris] general impressions of network throughput

2014-03-16 Thread Brian Staszewski
I'm using a 5501 to do routing and DNS (with Debian) and I regularly push the full 100mbps that my ISP provides (it comes out to ~96mbps) through it with no problems. — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Malcolm Herbert m...@mjch.net wrote: We will be soon getting a

Re: [Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread ED Fochler
Nikola, I think your tjmax assumption may be off by 10, skewing your sysctl results. My 6501 box(es) run at 65-68C typically, rackmounted with 1U above and below each, in a 25C room, running PFSense. That being said, yeah, they run a little hotter than I’d like. I’m probably going to buy

Re: [Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread Nikola Gyurov
ED, according to Intel, the tjmax for the 1 GHz Atom is 90 C (speaking about the E640 here)? There's also the 640T with tjmax of 110 C. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/queens-bay/embedded-intel-atom-e6xx-series-with-intel-platform-controller-hub-eg20t.html But how does

Re: [Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread ED Fochler
I apologize for being unclear. I agree that your TJ-Max is 90. I think your sysctl measurement sounds high, as if sysctl is assuming a tjmax off 100 when calculating the offset. http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2012-January/018121.html Or perhaps you are smarter than me, and I

Re: [Soekris] 6501 with OpenBSD as firewall

2014-03-16 Thread Nikola Gyurov
I meant no disrespect, apologies if you felt offended. I'm also using OpenBSD, not Linux. Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:18 AM, ED Fochler soek...@liquidbinary.com wrote: I apologize for being unclear. I agree that your TJ-Max is 90. I think your sysctl measurement