On 24-Aug-2011 22:09, Josh Hoppes wrote: > I'm currently running OpenBSD on a net5501-70 and it's been great. I > was using a CF card but have moved to 2.5" SATA as I like having the > freedom of space and the CF card corrupted itself causing it to stop > booting. As for installing using PXE boot will work but you do need to > make sure you tell it to use the com port when it boots the installer, > see the wiki page for more details. > > http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_OpenBSD
I've been running an OpenBSD router/firewall/mail/ssh/sftp server on a net5501-60 for about 3 years now. I am using a 2.5" laptop drive for the boot drive. Basically the box runs non-stop. It handles two VOIP phones, Netflix streaming (sometimes two separate sessions), a small internal LAN (5 computers, one of which has 2 always running VMs; all doing various types of updates, connecting to the outside world with VPNs, SSH sessions, and/or RDC sessions). The performance is good -- my limiting factor appears to be my internet provider (there is a small drop in Netflix performance in the evenings when my neighbors return home from work). The only issue I had was being cheap when I bought the power supply -- I bought the 1.5A version. Once or twice per year I would suffer a "brownout" that would leave the box apparently powered up, but not functional (no traffic would pass and you couldn't log in, there was no apparent response to the keyboard). The solution was to unplug the power supply and plug it back in; it would reboot, no apparent harm done. Then all would be well for months. Recently the power supply died completely. So, I bought the 3.0A version. So far (two months), it is running happily. Eric _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
