On 2015-08-18 11:42, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:59:49PM +0000, Jona Joachim wrote:
On 2015-08-18, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote:
> Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am contemplating buying a new machine which will act as a router/DNS
>> caching server for my home network. Is anybody currently running OpenBSD
>> on the Ubiquiti Networks EdgeRouter LITE in that capacity? I saw that in
>> June 2015 USB support was added which allows installing to local disk on
>> machine. Can anybody point me to a work in progress documentation diff
>> for installing 5.8 octeon port. I am reading right now
>
> Here are my notes, which are basic, but should be enough to get you through if
> you're familiar with openbsd.
> http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-ERL
Thank you very much for the write-up! I'm looking into buying hardware
to build a small OpenBSD home router and this looks interesting.
You say that the machine will not be able to serve as an IPSEC
gateway.
Is that when you consider Gigabit ethernet or do you think that even a
10 Mbit connection will require too much computational power to do
IPSEC on this machine?
You also mention the usb driver which is not so reliable. I don't see
a
USB port on the machine. Is this an internal bus? I would be
interested
to use it with hostapd with a usb wifi nic.
There is only one internal port, and you need that for storage. The
internal flash is not supported and it's not all that much anyway.
I've not tested it, but have my doubts uboot will boot from a usb
storage device with a hub in between.
Kindly,
Jona Joachim
You can upgrade the internal usb storage capacity. Not all usb keys
seems to work though. A couple functioning models can be found at the
Gentoo MIPS/ERLite-3 page (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MIPS/ERLite-3).
I bought a 16 GB one to use in my ERL with OpenBSD but I haven't tested
it since I can't connect to the router's serial port. Seems it could be
caused by my cheap usb-to-serial cable with an CH340/341 which returns
me only garbage. I can type commands and see that they have an effect
but all text is garbage.
Do you guys have any idea? Or do I just need to buy a better
usb-to-serial converter with an FTDI processor like this one:
http://www.usconverters.com/usb-serial-adapter-xs882
Thanks for the help.
Dom
