I have been running a 4801 running OpenBSD on a Sandisk camera grade CF card for 5 years or so without issue. Run swapless and put var on a ramdisk and you should be fine. I keep / mount ro to be on the safe side but have
For what its worth, the limited CPU and RAM on the 4801 have never been an issue for me routing a home cable connection, firewalling with pf and providing VPN via OpenVPN so a 5501 should do you fine. Install has also always gone smoothly. All in all I love my 4801 Good luck, Brian On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Todd Pytel <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the comments. > > I'm quite happy with OpenBSD, and would need a compelling reason to move > away from it. So I'm not looking for tailored network appliance > distributions. I just want to make sure there aren't any serious hangups > with the current hardware and OS iterations. > > I did notice the page for the 6501. It looks like a pretty big step up > from the 5501, though I'm not sure I would make much use of the extra > power. Gigabit ethernet is sexy and all, but I've never needed that kind > of transfer rate across the router - my desktops and file server are all > on their own switch behind the router's NAT, and I haven't even bothered > upgrading that to 10/100/1000 yet. Any word on what pricing is going to > look like? If it's no more than $100 or so, I might do it, provided the > hardware compatibility is good. It doesn't seem like it would be worth > much more than that in my situation. > > I did read that Soekris wiki page as well, so I know there are some > other odds and ends like the com port to deal with, but that should be > fine. The CF corruption is more troubling, though. Is that a common > issue? I know CF isn't really designed to be an OS's boot drive for a > variety of reasons, but I haven't followed the details so much. > > Suppose I wanted to move up to a SSD instead? Is that just a matter of > buying Soekris's 2.5" SATA mounting kit and popping in something like > this... > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167044 ? > > Any other power or configuration issues to deal with there? The last > time I followed hardware tech closely was right before SSD's became > affordable, so I don't know a lot about them. > > --Todd > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
