On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:57 PM Mik J <mikyde...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > Hello, > > > The primary and AUX NICs work, the LAN0/0 and WAN0/0 ports do not, > > likely because there's some GPIO magic required to switch back the > > relays. > > It's strange because when the OS is switched off, the relays are closed (act > as a wire). I would have thought at least, you could plug cables on these > interfaces and a ping would go through. >
You would think that, but it seems the Riverbed OS flicks those relays on boot, and there are configuration commands to flick them back manually. There's clearly some magic going on but there doesn't seem to be any GPIO available, at least not in OpenBSD. > Which benefits do you find in recycling these hardwares ? What is your usage ? > I heard they make good pfSense firewalls, no reason we couldn't do PF natively :) They're cheap, low profile, rack mountable devices with ECC memory, gigabit NICs and (at least for the 550 at the time of manufacture) somewhat enterprise-grade CPUs. Most "appliance" style systems one finds tend to run mobile CPUs or the old Core 2s - or worse, first gen Atoms. There's no beating that level of bang for buck. > Regards > > > > Le mardi 19 novembre 2019 à 03:45:11 UTC+1, Aaron Mason > <simplersolut...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > Here's a quick rundown on how I got it installed - you will need an > existing OpenBSD installation. > > 1. Download the FS install image. > 2. Mount it in your existing OpenBSD system and edit etc/boot.conf to > set the tty to com0. > 3. Write the resulting image to a USB stick. > 4. Plug in your USB stick, then plug in the power. > 5. When it says to press any key, do so. When the GRUB menu appears, hit 'c'. > 6. Set the root device (which will likely be hd2): root (hd2) > 7. Fire up the chainloader: chainloader +1 > 8. Boot: boot > 9. ??? > 10. Profit! > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 1:31 PM Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > All > > > > Fired up OpenBSD 6.6 on a Riverbed Steelhead 250 and a 550, purchased > > from fleabay for about $30 ea (plus shipping) - the 250 runs a single > > core Celeron M @ 1.66GHz and 1GB DDR2, the 550 runs a low power > > dual-core Xeon at the same speed and 2GB DDR2 - both x86 only. Both > > have a 2GB USB DOM and a separate laptop HDD (120GB for the 250 and > > 320GB for the 550) likely for caching (these being WAN accelerators). > > > > The primary and AUX NICs work, the LAN0/0 and WAN0/0 ports do not, > > likely because there's some GPIO magic required to switch back the > > relays. The Xeon-powered 550 definitely seems to have a bit more > > oompf than the 250's hamster whee-- err, Celeron M CPU. > > > > The output for dmesg for each is attached. > > > > -- > > Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict > > I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse > > > > > -- > Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict > I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse > -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
