Mike, If I may ask, what was/is your network speed? I read in the smallwall (www.smallwall.org) documentation that throughput maxes out at around 40-50 Mbps. This could be an issue since mine reaches 91 Mbps at times.
Thanks, udon On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:18:05PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 10/02/2017 19:26, [email protected] wrote: > >Hi all, I'm thinking of running NetBSD on a Soekris net4801. It has > >128 MB RAM and 1 GB CF card. Does anybody have experience running > >NetBSD on these machines? Do I need a custom kernel for the AMD Geode > >CPU on the machines? Is there a good way to reduce wear (for example > >swap use) to increase the CF card's life? Thanks, udon > > > Did it for years without any issues on NetBSD 6 right up to the point where > I replaced that machine with something a little faster (it was my firewall > and it was struggling to keep up with my DSL link at full speed :( ). > > No custom kernel required. Geode works out of the box on NetBSD 6. Can't > remember if I ever got as far as NetBSD 7 before I replaced it. > > Only tricks I really did to reduce CF wear was to mount the filesystems > noatime. Other than that I treated it entirely normally. > > Mike
