The hardware is good. After an AC incident, I've had some of those cavium nics melt the cpu thermal paste, dripping all over the mainboard. (this nics are inserted into a riser card, facing down the mainboard)
The machine kept running! A quarta, 24/06/2020, 21:12, Pierre Emeriaud <petrus.lt+open...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Le mer. 24 juin 2020 à 13:01, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> a > écrit : > > > > On 2020-06-23, Daniel Ouellet <dan...@presscom.net> wrote: > > > OpenBSD does run on some old Cisco routers, it's been done before. Sure > > > it's not officially supported nor does it support all the various > > > interfaces but it's known to work on some. > > Not a router per se, but my home gateway is a Cisco ACE 4710 appliance > running 6.6, with multiple rdomains, tinc vpns, bgp full ipv6 table > and a couple of nics, and a 4GB cf as harddisk. > > > > I am trying to dig up a dmesg showing it too. > > https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=4760 > > > > Here is an example using the4 old Cisco IDS-4215 > > > > > > > https://komlositech.wordpress.com/2018/12/30/revive-a-cisco-ids-into-a-capable-openbsd-firewall/ > > > > > > I was just curious as to what stage it might be now. > > > > That's just someone reusing janky old hardware that is being thrown out, > > there is no particular effort to support it on the OpenBSD side. > > My hardware is really ancient compared to modern servers: > $ sysctl hw.model > hw.model=Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz > > It draws power for sure, much more than an APU or similar, but I like it :) > > The install was straightforward, install on the CF from another host > w/ qemu, plug, boot, done. > > > > May be Juniper instead as Juniper is based on FreeBSD anyway and it's > an > > > over price PC with specialize network cards. (; Ok more then that, but > > > you get the picture I think. > > > > they're devices with network forwarding ASICs that happen to use a > > FreeBSD system as the control plane (and are moving to Linux now but > > I digress).. networking on the control plane is really limited and > > only meant for management, beyond that you need to interface with > > the special hardware. > > The Cisco ACE4710 had a specialized nic, a cavium (octeon?), running > linux on a mips cpu, to offload all the heavy lifting. I removed it > and never tried to use it. > > I also tried to install 5.sth on a nokia IP 710 firewall, that didn't > go that well because of some pci & acpi issues iirc, and overall it > was less interesting because of the huge form factor, and the > linecards beeing proprietary. > >
