Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On September 4, 2016 11:30:47 PM GMT-03:00, Christopher Hilton 
 wrote:
>>On Sep 4, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos 
>wrote:
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> I won't laugh at all. I am now leaving both pfsense and soekris and I
>am building a RPI2 box just to this role. So far, so good. Till next
>weekend I may have it running as backup router, and soon after the main
>one. Must be prepared to change my 5501-70. The 6501-70 passed away
>first :/
>> 
>
>Firstly, my Net5501 machines have been tremendously reliable. My
>Net6501 has also been fine but I don’t want to press my luck.
>
>I just read about a machine called the Banana Pi in Linux Journal. The
>column was about building a low powered NAS box. Your Mileage May Vary
>but that might be a more appropriate solution. The Banana Pi is still
>ARM but it’s available in System On Chip format with 4 x Gb ethernet.
>Gigabit is a requirement for me since my ISP has just made 60Mb/s it’s
>minimum Tier. I upgraded from Net5501 to Net6501 because the Net5501’s
>100Mb/s NICs were limiting my Internet speeds to 85Mb/s.
>
>I can’t move to Banana Pi today because I won’t move off of OpenBSD.
>Having said that it’s not an issue for me because I moved my Net6501
>into the background about a year ago over health concerns I saw here. I
>replaced it with a 1U SuperMicro Atom. The power draw is similar but
>the machine seems to be a bit more rugged.
>
>Chris

Chris, 

Do you mean this 
https://www.google.com.br/url?q=http://store.mectronica.it/kit-sviluppo-embedded-iot-e/333-kit-router-banana-pi-dual-core-1ghz-5x-ethernet-wifi-microsd-card-8gb-with-os-4016138945546.html=U=0ahUKEwikwvG95v7OAhXKFpAKHVqOAs8QFggNMAE=AFQjCNE3dPr7xgxSAw3K5nlc7EUXgyg-lQ
 ? 

Looks like a switch there. If I can find an arm board that can run FreeBSD and 
has at least 3 Ethernet nic's, that would be a real winner. 

Thanks for the tip, 

Matheus 
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Re: [Soekris] Dying net6501 servers

[Chris Cappuccio]

Christopher Hilton [ch...@vindaloo.com] wrote:
> I can???t move to Banana Pi today because I won???t move off of OpenBSD. 
> Having said that it???s not an issue for me because I moved my Net6501 into 
> the background about a year ago over health concerns I saw here. I replaced 
> it with a 1U SuperMicro Atom. The power draw is similar but the machine seems 
> to be a bit more rugged.
> 

The u-boot in the OpenBSD ports tree has BananaPi and BananaPro support.
There are also miniroot images with the u-boot already placed.

Considering that allwinner H3 and A64 should both work under openbsd/armv7
under -current, you should be able to use the newer boards now, as well.
You definitely want -current and not 6.0 release for Cortex-A7.

Chris
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