Re: [Soekris] [SPAM] Re: yet another dead 6501
On 2017-09-05, Hendrickson, Kennethwrote: > No, let me correct that. > > I think the APU hardware has some PCI-E slots. > I think I bought wireless hardware, that was advertised as being compatible > with OpenBSD. > > And I haven't been able to get it working yet. :-( > > Most of that work was in the December 2015 timeframe, so it was a while ago. > > I've forgotten . Make sure that you are using a minipcie slot not the msata slot. If it still fails, check that the bios is up to date, and if that doesn't help, post to m...@openbsd.org with a dmesg. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: doesn't start if not first unplugged for 8 minutes
On 2017-04-19, Nenhum_de_Noswrote: > as many of you I got my dead one here. Now I look foward to a new brand, and > look for same kind of issues on the new APU2 from PcEngines. APU2 is still a bit new to identify this type of problem. I haven't seen any problems with WRAP, ALIX or APU1 and I don't see a reason for it to be different. But then neither have I seen problems with net4501, net4521, net4801, net5501 - all have been rock solid. > Does anyone knows if there is a mailing list, just as this, for their > products? Just the web forum. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput
On 2016-06-10, Jed Clearwrote: >> The vr driver always copies transmit mbuf chains into longword-aligned >> buffers prior to transmission in order to pacify the Rhine chips. If >> buffers are not aligned correctly, the chip will round the supplied >> buffer address and begin DMAing from the wrong location. This buffer >> copying impairs transmit performance on slower systems but cannot be >> avoided. On faster machines (e.g. a Pentium II), the performance >> impact >> is much less noticeable. > > Interesting. You'd think the drivers would align the packets on Rx and I > vaguely recall that FreeBSD managed to go zero copy a few major versions ago. > Although that could be for straight forwarding. IPFW and NAT might behave > differently. Not sure I'd have any control over it. The manpage is outdated, this is only done for the old chips. It's not needed and isn't done for VT610x. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501: FreeBSD ipfw and the elusive 75Mbps throughput
On 2016-06-09, Christopher Hiltonwrote: > At the end of the day I think that 75 ~ 85 MBit's per second is the = > limit on the vr interface in net5501. Bandwidth is only part of the equation; packets-per-second matter too. Even if you get to 75-85Mb/s I'd still consider that as a stopgap, if you get a lot of small packets you run out of steam again. > If you only have one firewall/router I'd replace it with either = > a Net6501 or some other Intel Atom/PCIe/Intel Gigabit based solution. If looking at other vendors, don't restrict yourself to boards with Intel CPUs, there are also some small boxes using AMD GX-412TC and Intel I210AT NICs (em) that work quite nicely. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] I see development of the net6801 has been dropped.
On 2015-10-19, Dan Shechterwrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:26 AM, wrote: >>> Jerome Ibanes hat am 19. Oktober 2015 um 01:09 >>> geschrieben: >>> Does anyone has experience with Supermicro SYS-5018A-FTN4? >>> >>> Specs: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-FTN4.cfm >>> Quote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101837 >>> >>> The quality is certainly not comparable to what we've seen from >>> Soekris, but this seems to be an acceptable solution for the price. >> >> I am using one of them and pretty happy. IMHO it's a good Soekris >> replacement. > > What about Serial console, especially for the BIOS? > > -Dan They have a BIOS option to set them to use serial console, it's not active by default so you need to plug in a keyboard or use IPMI for initial setup. Watch out for IPMI on these. This usually *is* enabled by default, setup with a common default admin password, and to share the first main NIC if nothing's connected to the management port, leaving access to the console/power/etc a lot wider open than you probably want. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Fragmented packets with force 100/Full on the 5510-60
On 2014-05-26, François Cachereul f.cacher...@alphalink.fr wrote: Hi, We have the following problem with the 5510-60 running Linux (2.6.26 or 3.2): The second fragment of packets send on an interface configured 100 full without auto-negotiation is not send. The problem happens in this precise case not with 100 half nor 10 full/half. It can be solve setting the interface down and up (with ip link for example). This problem seem to be a hardware as it does not happen with the same Linux driver on another equipment (Via Rhine II - VT6102). Testing VT6102 doesn't really rule anything out, it has a number of differences to VT6105M so the driver will take some different codepaths. If your driver enables checksum offload, it may be worth trying with that disabled?. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] any hints for an adsl pci card for opensbd ?
On 2014-04-06, Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org wrote: On 04/05/2014 07:44 PM, Vittorio Cipriani wrote: Hi, I want buy some soekris device to build an openbsd hardened firewall, but I need of an advice about an adsl pci modem card. Anyone could help me ? ADSL-only: Sangoma S518. You'll need drivers though; there's a howto on the Sangoma website. ADSL2+ (with fallback to ADSL): Traverse Viking. No drivers needed because the card presents itself to the system as a Realtek Ethernet interface. You'll probably have to get these second-hand somewhere because I think that they're both end-of-life. Jan The original post said, I'd avoid a pci card with a router abilities because I have some doubts about its security. I mean that a typical home netgear/linksys router are really easy to hack. it's very simple download the firmware from the vendor site, uncompress it and then insert some kind of trojan/sniffer then flash it on the device. So I have the same suspects on pci router card thus I want a pure adsl modem card instead of a mdem router. And finally why shoud I want a router inside a host with just one ethernet port So the Viking-type cards (router glued onto a PCI ethernet i.e http://linitx.com/product/adsl2-pci-card-single-port-adsl-modem-annex-a/12181) are exactly what OP is trying to avoid. For the pure adsl modem card it's going to be something like a Solos (if you can find a source, as they are EOL) or S518 (sangoma's site doesn't say they are EOL, though the OS support list doesn't include anything recent, so may need some fiddling for current systems, and they're adsl1 only). But there is no driver support for any of these on OpenBSD. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501 : CPU architecture ?
On 2013-05-10, Conrad Kostecki conik...@gmx.de wrote: Am 10.05.2013 16:14, schrieb fabrice bessettes: Hi list, [...] But I was wondering if the Soekris CPU E6xx is really a 64 bit CPU ? or if the openBSD kernel amd64 includes 32-bit in it. In this case, I might reinstall my system. OpenBSD/amd64 only runs in 64-bit mode. Seems so. Ubuntu and Gentoo work perfectly fine with a 64-Bit kernel out of the box. Without any patching. So the CPU seems to be 64-Bit capable.. I don't know, why Intel says, that this is not possible. Cheers, Conrad The CPU is supposed to only support 32-bit mode but it appears that the 6501 bios may not set this up correctly. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: temps and fans redux
On 2013-03-20, Peter Neubauer pneuba...@bluerwhite.org wrote: As I understand it, the CPU temperature sensor is relative to a parameter called Tjmax (maximum junction temperature), but the hardware provides no way for software to determine this parameter. The Linux driver requires a special option to set the correct Tjmax (coretemp tjmax=90). I presume OpenBSD needs a similar option. If only there was a platform independent mechanism by which a computer could tell the OS about things like power states, temperatures, watchdogs, etc... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] RESOLVED: Problem on net5501 upgrading to FreeBSD 9.1 from 8.3
On 2013-02-18, Corey Halpin chal...@cs.wisc.edu wrote: I don't know if the code in 9.1 is using IDE emulation or trying to get=20 configuration information via AHCI. The CS5536 in the net5501 does not have AHCI, the SATA connector is behind a bridge. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Clock losing time on Net5501
On 2013-02-13, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: Joakim Aronius joa...@aronius.se wrote: [OpenBSD] I have not had time to look into the 'new' rc.d controlsystem for starting and stopping services but a cronjob with '/etc/rc.d/ntpd restart' should do the same thing as a reboot.. But I could not find anything on special handling like writing hw clock during shutdown, could be internal in ntpd. ntpd(8) doesn't have anything to do with it. The hardware clock is set by the boot(9) call when halting/rebooting the system. settimeofday(2) and clock_settime(2) will also set the hardware clock. However, only ntpd -s calls settimeofday, once at startup. In normal operation, ntpd uses adjtime(2), which does not touch the hardware clock. So, in theory, this should force it to be written: # date $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris 6501-70 / 6501-50 Network Throughput under Debian / OpenBSD
On 2012-11-14, Lon Willett x_soek...@lonw.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:51:54 +0100 Mitja Muženičmi...@muzenic.net wrote: I don't know how it is with other operating systems but it's safe to presume that unless your OS actively sets the CPU to the high speed state your net6501-50 and net6501-70 units will be severely underclocked. So linux has been lying to me: my net6501-70 CPU is really running at 600 MHz. That explains why it's so slow with its (fortunately rare) CPU intensive tasks. This is because the TSC (timestamp counter) used to calculate cpu speed is run at a constant rate in these newer Intel CPUs (indicated by the constant_tsc flag in Linux /proc/cpuinfo, or CTSC in the cpu attach line in very recent OpenBSD -current),unless the OS knows how to handle this, it will report the maximum cpu speed, so you don't see that it was running at a lower rate. http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/commit/?id=4b2a0a3689f8b7eb014d69d959ba537e89339103 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] UK Soekris resellers?
Are there any UK-based Soekris resellers (other than a rather expensive amazon vendor with no feedback)? Pricing in EUR/USD can be a bit awkward in some cases so there are times this would be useful. Not looking for any myself right at the moment (though I'd been wondering a while, during which time I've bought a couple of pcengines boards from linitx because they'll turn up the next day at a known price) but this mail was prompted by someone asking on IRC and other people mentioning that this had put them off buying hardware.. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris Net-5501 and TightVNC?
On 2012-07-20, aa...@aa6qn.sytes.net aa...@aa6qn.sytes.net wrote: As a TightVNC server. I was looking for the proper Linux kernel graphics framebuffer to compile into the kernel to support a virtual vnc framebuffer. You're probably looking for Xvfb (this doesn't need anything in-kernel). I did see some mini-pci video cards on ebay that I was considering. The Soekris boards are not really the wrong hardware if you want to run a video card. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 reset button in OS
On 2012-07-18, David Mattes mat...@asguardnetworks.com wrote: --===1034955111== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d042dfdc5134ed304c521fa6c --f46d042dfdc5134ed304c521fa6c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Has anyone had success implementing software reset? How? http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2009-December/016234.html Thank you! Ugh, I realized I have a 4501 board, not a 4801. I had seen the post you mention, but it's still not clear to me how those pins map to memory locations that can be programmatically read. Should be in the Elan SC520 datasheet if you aren't using an OS which already provides a driver for this, or you can probably find some old code if you search for things like net4501 gpio etc. For the reset button I don't know if it's latched on the 4501 but I guess it's likely. Dump the state of all the gpio lines, then press the button once, dump again and see what changed... Regards, David --f46d042dfdc5134ed304c521fa6c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable blockquote class=3Dgmail_quote style=3Dmargin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;= margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color= :rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1exdivdiv class= =3Dh5 brgt;brgt; Has anyone had success implementing software reset? =A0How= ?brbr/div/diva href=3Dhttp://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-= tech/2009-December/016234.html target=3D_blankhttp://lists.soekris.com/= pipermail/soekris-tech/2009-December/016234.html/abr br/blockquotedivThank you! =A0Ugh, I realized I have a 4501 board, no= t a 4801. =A0I had seen the post you mention, but it#39;s still not clear = to me how those pins map to memory locations that can be programmatically r= ead./div divbr/divdivRegards,/divdivDavid/div --f46d042dfdc5134ed304c521fa6c-- --===1034955111== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech --===1034955111==-- Is the html mail really necessary? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 reset button in OS
On 2012-07-11, David Mattes mat...@asguardnetworks.com wrote: --===0246186895== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae93407b385b3c804c4853238 --14dae93407b385b3c804c4853238 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, I have changed the Reset button behavior in net4801 BIOS from Hard to Soft. Is it possible to read the reset button state in the *nix operating system? I'm looking for documentation on how/where this button is attached to the CPU I/O and can not find anything. Has anyone had success implementing software reset? How? http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2009-December/016234.html ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris 6501-70 / 6501-50 Network Throughput under Debian / OpenBSD
Replying to an old(ish) post. On 2011-12-14, Josh mylis...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to improve the network throughput under OpenBSD? Some more information came to light... Here's a workaround until it can be fixed: sysctl hw.setperf=0 sysctl hw.setperf=100 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Network console and other net6501 features
On 2012-05-30, Chris Wilson chris-soek...@aptivate.org wrote: I have a feeling that the serial console, the only way to configure a Soekris, is very 1970s. Admittedly it is quite reliable, but slow, fiddly, most modern computers don't even have a serial port any more, and I've found USB-to-serial converters quite unreliable, with dropped characters causing issues using the terminal and boot menu. Sounds like you have bad USB-to-RS232 converters, I and many others find serial console access highly reliable and simple, even via USB, fast enough for the purpose, and (as a big advantage over ethernet-based access) it is unaffected by NIC firmware crashes etc. This is especially useful on machine likes these where the serial port can be used to forcibly reset the power supply (+++ POWER) which can clear the majority of such problems that might be encountered. I've found it useful to connect a Wiznet serial-to-LAN gateway to in-school servers, to allow remote access to the serial console even if the machine is misbehaving. However this is pretty ugly to look at, and fragile. I guess ugliness/fragility would depend on what enclosure you use... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Resolved - Re: Bridging OpenBSD
On 2012-04-27, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to those who responded. The hints helped. A way to get DHCP over bridged interfaces in OpenBSD is to make the bridge but assign an IP number to each interface anyway, not just the first one. dhcpd will squawk about interfaces sharing the same subnet, but will bind to the first one if it is configured to do so. The bridge itself is not allowed an ip number of its own. In that way each of the hosts plugged into the Soekris are available on the same subnet. /Lars You should not be assigning addresses to more than one interface. Is there a problem with the method I suggested i.e. put the address on *one* interface and list the interface names in dhcpd_flags? I suggest following up on an openbsd list as this is not a soekris issue. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD
On 2012/04/29 14:24, Malcolm Herbert wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:05:27PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: |On 2012-04-26, Greg Troxel g...@work.lexort.com wrote: | I wonder if the issue is that dhcp is implemented by bpf, and bpf raw | frames are not bridged. | |Yes, exactly. You would need to specify the list of network adapters |in dhcpd_flags in /etc/rc.conf.local, then /etc/rc.d/dhcpd restart. wierd ... wonder why mine works on NetBSD then ... probably because because NetBSD is different to OpenBSD.. sounds like maybe it duplicates frames to bpf listeners on any member interface of a bridge; this would simplify dhcpd configuration but I think also makes it harder to use bpf to diagnose problems with the bridge, it would prevent you checking on which physical port traffic is sent/ received on. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Bridging OpenBSD
On 2012-04-26, Greg Troxel g...@work.lexort.com wrote: I wonder if the issue is that dhcp is implemented by bpf, and bpf raw frames are not bridged. Yes, exactly. You would need to specify the list of network adapters in dhcpd_flags in /etc/rc.conf.local, then /etc/rc.d/dhcpd restart. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] No Debian mirrors available during installation
On 2012-04-05, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a net5501 and regardless of whether I try to get squeeze, wheezy or sid, the same error pops up: The installer failed to download a file from the mirror...Retry, Change mirror, Cancel The installation process detects network hardware fine (eth4: Realtek Semiconductor ...) and successfully gets an address via DHCP. However, it's not able to reach any mirrors. Realtek - I presume this is a pci nic then? do the onboard ones work? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] problems with net6501-70
On 2012-03-20, Ulf Zimmermann u...@openlane.com wrote: Trying pfsense and FreeBSD9.0 via pxeboot, I get at some point to see the swirly on my serial terminal but nothing else, it is as if all other text is white on white or black on black. Has anyone seen something similar? I am not very picky about what I put on these, as soon I get ... a NTP daemon, as I want to use these as our NTP masters for the internal network. This sounds like the boot loader hasn't been told to put the console on the serial port, so you don't get output after the kernel has started running. I don't know how to set this for pfsense/FreeBSD, there should be something in documentation for the boot loader. On OpenBSD you either type 'set tty com0' into the boot loader, or place that line in /etc/boot.conf on the tftp server that you pxeboot from. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net6501: Timer problems with Debian, no HPET support detected
On 2012-03-10, Frank Schuhmann f.schuhm...@t-online.de wrote: Is the bios from the Soekris net6501 ACPI conform? No This came up on the list before, see Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on Net6501 working! from Dec 2011. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] confused about installing pfSense on net6501
On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu ovi...@gmail.com wrote: Method 1: PXE install I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after: Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader It looks like the next load phase never happens. I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well, but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Searching for PCI Express, UMTS card + SIM card dock
On 2011-12-30, Thomas Merkel t...@core.io wrote: Hello everyone, i'm looking for an UMTS card for the PCI-Express slot. My Soekris board is an net6501. One of the important things are that the UMTS card should work on Linux and has an SIM dock included. Have someone experience with an good PCI-Express card? Thanks and best regards, Thomas It's a bit awkward. There are lots of cheap holders that carry a MiniPCIe card in a PCIe slot, but these have no SIM holder. Someone posted here a while ago with some suggestions; one is to use a half-size MiniPCIe UMTS card (which don't seem to be very common) in a riser (Delock 65230) which fits the full size MiniPCIe slot and includes a SIM holder. There is also Delock 89235 which fits the PCIE slot and includes a SIM holder and antenna connectors, but it looks like it also requires a connection to a USB header in order to use the SIM holder. (I don't have one so don't know for sure about this). Or you might find some stock of the end-of-life Novatel EU850D which has a sim-holder built-in, but afaik this is the only card which does. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding.
On 2011-12-09, Brandan Rowley brandan.row...@cityofthornton.net wrote: Windows 7 PC to the network. Performing file transfers from the Windows 7 = PC's across the VPN tunnel causes the internal interface of the net5501 to = stop responding. A reboot is needed to get the interface communicating aga= in. This repeatable. Windows XP clients have no issues. Is this a fix or= workaround for this? I've tried OpenBSD 5.0 and read of similar issues on= OpenBSD, but have not found a resolution. There was a very recent fix for a vr(4) problem committed to -current, I would try updating the OS to 5.0 then updating sys/dev/pci/if_vr* to the latest version and building a new kernel. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/pci/ This is probably a candidaatte for going into 5.0-stable after it's had more testing. As to why Windows 7 but not XP triggers it, this is probably due to improvements in their network stack making it likely traffic is sent more rapidly over a medium/high-latency link. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding.
Might be worth looking at ciphers/hashes and see if switching to a different type improves things. Don't automatically assume that hw acceleration is going to help; it reduces cpu use but has high overheads so it can make things worse in some cases. On 2011-12-09, Brandan Rowley brandan.row...@cityofthornton.net wrote: Hi Aric, Thanks for the reply. That sounds about right, I'm getting about 7Mbit of IPsec traffic. I have tried turning on/off ipcomp with no real improvement. For this particular tunnel I'm now needing more throughput. I've been looking at the net6501 and am considering giving it a try. Regards, Brandan -Original Message- From: Aric Warsaw [mailto:awar...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 3:43 PM To: Brandan Rowley Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding. Hi Brandan I've experienced just this even with the crypto accelerator card. That was back on OpenBSD 4.8. I've found that about 8-10Mbit of IPsec traffic is all you're going to get out of these guys...your mileage may vary. Taking IPsec full throttle for 30 minutes or longer was causing my 5501 to fall off the networklost layer 2 and serial to the box entirely. My work around was to QoS the IPsec traffic down. Another option that I hadn't done personally and assuming you've enabled ipcomp, you can turn it off to save CPU resources. Again hadn't done it. Most IPsec documentation for OpenBSD tells you to enable this in /etc/sysctl.conf, so it might break your flows and SAs. This is the setting: net.inet.ipcomp.enable=1 # 0 to disable or just comment out the line Let us know if you try it and notice a difference. Hope that helps. -Aric 2011/12/9 Brandan Rowley brandan.row...@cityofthornton.net: Hi, I am new to the list so be gentle if this has been posted already.? I am using two net5501 (with the VPN chip) running OpenBSD 4.9 to setup a VPN tunnel.? The tunnel has been up and running for a while.? We've recently added Windows 7 PC to the network.? Performing file transfers from the Windows 7 PC's across the VPN tunnel causes the internal interface of the net5501 to stop responding.? A reboot is needed to get the interface communicating again.? This repeatable.? Windows XP clients have no issues. Is this a fix or workaround for this?? I've tried OpenBSD 5.0 and read of similar issues on OpenBSD, but have not found a resolution. Regards, Brandan ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding.
On 2011-12-10, Frank Schuhmann f.schuhm...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Brandan, on the Windows 7 side all significant updates are done? You?ve checked the Windows 7 internal firewall, to be sure that the false is not pointed or placed in their? Because you wrote that the Win XP was not producing the problem, but Win 7 should do it, it is perhaps the TCP window scaling, as declared in the RFC 1323. In some similar other cases it was sometimes fixing the problem (pfsense) and in sometimes also not, but to quick test it out the spended time will to be of value. Yes this is what I meant about the improvements in the Windows network stack. This sort of thing used to cause a problem with stateful firewall rules in places (because we do sequence number tracking) until we started doing flags s/sa keep state by default. However it wouldn't result into the interface totally locking up until it's reset. (btw Brandon, Note that ifconfig vrX down; ifconfig vrX up would probably also clear it without a full reboot). On the BSD side perhaps you try to turn of the scaling, I?m not an OpenBSD professional but it must be turn out by setting up a shell order likes sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 If not or it must be typed in, in other direction it will be super that perhaps an OpenBSD familiar list member would correct this please. This is the correct command but it only affects the local tcp stack, not forwarded packets, so I think this will have no effect here. And at the other point I consider what Stuart Henderson was mentoring to you. Perhaps the best at all, but keeping an eye on the net6501 is also a nice option ;) I hope this is helping you out. Kind regards Frank -Original Message- From: soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com [mailto:soekris-tech-boun...@lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Brandan Rowley Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 11:11 PM To: 'soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com' Subject: [Soekris] vr0 using OpenBSD stops responding. Hi, I am new to the list so be gentle if this has been posted already. I am using two net5501 (with the VPN chip) running OpenBSD 4.9 to setup a VPN tunnel. The tunnel has been up and running for a while. We've recently added Windows 7 PC to the network. Performing file transfers from the Windows 7 PC's across the VPN tunnel causes the internal interface of the net5501 to stop responding. A reboot is needed to get the interface communicating again. This repeatable. Windows XP clients have no issues. Is this a fix or workaround for this? I've tried OpenBSD 5.0 and read of similar issues on OpenBSD, but have not found a resolution. Regards, Brandan __ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Signaturdatenbank-Version 6699 (20111210) __ E-Mail wurde gepr?ft mit ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com = ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] new to list
On 2011-10-20, Ralph Green sfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote: If you want to run Ubuntu, think about the version you want to run. Starting with Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu requires a CPU with CMOV support. They compile it for the 686 architecture, but the CMOV support is the only thing I have found that is needed that a 486 does not have. The geode on the Soekris 4500 series and 4801 boards is only capable of running an Ubuntu kernel up to version 10.04(supported with security updates for servers until 2015). I don't have any Geode LX boards(which the 5501 uses), so I can't say for sure, but I expect the 5501 would work with newer Ubuntu versions. No Ubuntu to test here, but geode LX does have CMOV support. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Using net5501 as a switch
On 2011-06-12, Christopher R. Hertel c...@ubiqx.mn.org wrote: There are four-port (actually 5-port) switches on PCI cards out there. These cards provide 10/100/1000 switching between all five ports, but one of the ports is wired internally to the PCI bus and makes the device look like a regular Ethernet card. I have no idea if any such card would work in a Soekris system. I just know they're out there. The only advantage of using such a card with a Soekris, however, is that you could get one with all five interfaces running at 1Gbps. As has been discussed on this list previously, that might not actually be a good thing. The other advantage of these cards is that typically they're vlan- capable and, in some OS, can be programmed by the machine. The cheaper and probably better solution would be to get an inexpensive five-port GigE switch and connect the first port to the Soekris. There are cheap vlan-capable small switches (there's a routerboard one, for example, with some interesting features like vlan tag translation and rate limiting) but typically these must be configured by a web interface. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Avoiding inadvertent PXE boot
On 2011-05-13, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: What settings should be selected to maximize the chance of booting from the SATA SSD drive under such circumstances? I suspect that the problem is the BootDrive setting which for all three machines is BootDrive = 80 81 F0 FF there is no manual for the 5501 and the 4801 manual is outdated, but there is some documentation that soekris customers have written themselves in http://wiki.soekris.info/What_do_all_those_BIOS_settings_do? which explains this setting. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] What's the difference between OpenSoekris and flashrd?
On 2011-04-16, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Chris. :-) 1.) What's the openbsd.vnd file, and how would you mount it? See the FAQ, Modify new /etc to include necessary configuration. 2.) If you DO mount it and wanted to edit the /etc files, I can see how you could configure PF, but you couldn't configure the NICs of the Soekris (could you?), because their respective re0 (or however their NIC's are identified) aren't yet created...because you installed the OS on the CF while it was attached to another PC. Just create the hostname.vr0/whatever files in the /etc. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux
On 2011-04-14, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: Look I was only responding to the person that wanted to use *BSD and not have to make public enhancements, changes, etc,nbsp; he or his companybr made. That to me makes it seem he/them was/were only interested in taking and not returning anything. br It is quite possible to provide source code for most changes you make and hold back on some of them. Indeed GPL can be a real administrative hassle if you have some changes which upstream is not interested in taking, you have to maintain a local copy of any code you've supplied to others just in case one of them decides they want a copy of the source sometime in the future. Many people *do* feed code back even when they aren't required to, because to do otherwise often means redoing your work to fit in with changes made in upstream code. For any significant change this can be a huge amount of work, so there's no point in keeping something private unless it's either trivial or worth a lot. In any event, the GPL doesn't stop people from taking without returning anything. I would guess probably the majority of people who don't pay for their software give nothing back whatever the license. GPL doesn't force people to give anything back, it's just about making sure people who receive your binaries also get source code. Anyway you should wait for my brother, he's much bigger and much tastier... Trip trap, trip trap, off to munch the sweet grass the other side of the river. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] speed throughput
On 2011-02-22, Nick Knight n...@omniis.com wrote: I am looking to get a feeling for the capability of the soekris equipment. I have been using the net 4501 for a number of years and just started looking at the 5501. As Internet speeds are increasing so has the requirements on these devices. So what experiences do you have of getting high speed through put and on what OS/device etc. We have only taken the net 5501 up to around 20MB, throughput - will you get more through it? Yes, but how much throughput you can get depends on packet sizes, OS and configuration. While you can get close to 100mb/s with bulk transfers, fire a bunch of small packets through and it will be much more restricted. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vpn1401 rng / hifn7955
On 2010-12-18, Nix n...@esperi.org.uk wrote: Is this a bad time to point out that with http://entropykey.co.uk/ you could have had a very paranoid hardware RNG with known-working Linux support? :) (yes, it probably is, I know.) I have one on my net5501 and it works perfectly, also feeding entropy to the other machines on my network (at 4Kb/s of entropy you're unlikely to need more than one on a small network). fwiw, the Geode LX on the 5501 has an RNG onboard... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Install OpenBSD on net4501 with a compact flash?
On 2010-10-29, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: I've found a few tutorials using the PXE boot method, but that seems pretty cumbersome. Really it's not, it saves a lot of rebooting the machine with the CF hard drive adapter and swapping cards around (which can be fiddly - you might like to leave a little tab of tape sticking out to use as a handle). If you do use the swap-cards-around method don't forget to set things up to use a serial console otherwise you'll have to put the card back in the other machine and edit /etc/ttys and /etc/boot.conf. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] (no subject)
On 2010-07-30, JF Straeten jfstrae...@scarlet.be wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:51:55AM -0700, Shabnam Koosha wrote: I have a soekris net4526 and I want to change the OS. I want to install FREBSD on it and its current OS is Pyramid linux (such a headache). Does any one know how to install a new OS on it? I am kind of newbie, please help me. :) You'll find suitable documentation here : http://wiki.soekris.info/Main_Page#Operating_Systems and specifically for FreeBSD here : http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_FreeBSD Good pointers, but be aware that the net4526 has at most 256MB, and possibly as little as 16MB, of flash storage. So it's fairly likely you'll need to produced a cut-down image and copy it to the flash storage via some other OS (possibly the installed Pyramid linux, or possibly something else via pxeboot). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Would a net5501 reliably host a web site?
On 2010-06-24, Ralph Becker-Szendy ra...@lr.los-gatos.ca.us wrote: The real limitation will probably be amount of memory: To run a 1TB file server under OpenBSD you really need to have at least 1GB of memory available to the file system (once the kernel has taken its part), so you can run fsck and have enough file system buffer space. You can hugely reduce fsck's memory requirements by adjusting newfs parameters, especially increasing block size and decreasing inode density from the defaults. Consider the expected average file size and have a play with different parameters. Try it on a running system where you can send SIGINFO to the fsck process and you'll get some feedback on how far it's got. If you haven't tried adjusting this before, I think you will be very surprised at the difference it makes. If you have free RAM when the system is running you might want to look at increasing the kern.bufcachepercent sysctl (this memory isn't dedicated to buffer cache; if processes start using more memory they take it back). But further discussion along these lines should probably move to an OpenBSD list. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Bios update problem on 5501
On 2010-01-13, Christopher Camden ccam...@cbnco.com wrote: download - ^^ Bob, try this. Note the dash. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] GPIO control of SW1(Reset Button) on 5501 with OpenBSD
On 2009-12-13, Lars Nooden lars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: The bios for the net5501 can set the reset switch so that it is under software control and accessible using GPIO. What device and pin would that be under OpenBSD 4.6 ? I went through and did a rather systematic attempt at checking all the gpio pins that I could find on devices gpio0 and gpio1, trying input for both internal pull-up and internal pull-down. A momentary press of the button will latch the output, so you don't have to read the pin at exactly the time you press the button. I'm not sure about pins on the 5501, and there's still no manual(!), but on the 4801 you need to take GPIO47 low to reset the latch, then you can read the state on GPIO18. It would at least be worth trying the same pins as a starting point since other GPIO-related things are similar between the two devices. (If you need to read the button in realtime, you hold the latch reset line low). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD installation problem
On 2009-12-14, aniss siyouti aniss.siyo...@gmail.com wrote: One other question,is it possible to install the file sets of openbsd without connecting the soekris to internet.Can i transfer these file from my computer to the soekris using tftp. For the *.tgz file sets you'll need to use ftp or http, tftp isn't available for that (nor would you really want it, it's horribly slow). I've installed quite a few machines by PXE without internet connection by running the DHCP server, tftpd and ftpd on a laptop. No problems at all. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr interface problem
On 2009-09-20, Dánial Olsen d...@ft.fo wrote: ifconfig vrx down; ifconfig vrx up fixes your problem? I don't know. I just experienced this one time and didn't try that, but perhaps I'll reproduce and try. Unplug and re-plug the cable a dozen times or so, you'll probably repeat it. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] vr interface problem
On 2009-09-18, Dánial Olsen d...@ft.fo wrote: Hi, I just had a weird problem with two of my 5501 boxes, running OpenBSD 4.3, connected to the same switch. The problem was that two of the four connected vr interfaces seemingly stopped working. I tried connecting a crossed cable between the boxes and also between the boxes and my laptop, but tcpdump on the 5501 did not see any incoming traffic - only outgoing. After some testing the 5501s were rebooted and then the interfaces worked as normal. This behaviour was perhaps triggered by the switch, to which they are connected, lost power a few times over the course of a couple of hours. My issue doesn't seem new as these two threads show: http://72.32.12.210/archives/openbsd/2007-10/0886.html http://www.nabble.com/Re:-soekris-5501-wierd-vr%284%29-maybe-PHY-problem-%28was-Re:-man-dhcpd.interfaces--%29-td15694468.html Does anyone know if there is a solution for this problem? Is this solved in a newer version of OpenBSD or FreeBSD perhaps? It was fixed in OpenBSD earlier this year, it's in -current snapshots and the forthcoming 4.6 release, or you can try this diff which may or may not apply to earlier versions. Index: if_vr.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_vr.c,v retrieving revision 1.81 retrieving revision 1.83 diff -u -p -r1.81 -r1.83 --- if_vr.c 29 Mar 2009 21:53:52 - 1.81 +++ if_vr.c 30 Apr 2009 18:28:29 - 1.83 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $OpenBSD: if_vr.c,v 1.81 2009/03/29 21:53:52 sthen Exp $*/ +/* $OpenBSD: if_vr.c,v 1.83 2009/04/30 18:28:29 mpf Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 @@ -366,20 +366,38 @@ allmulti: void vr_setcfg(struct vr_softc *sc, int media) { - int restart = 0; + int i; - if (CSR_READ_2(sc, VR_COMMAND) (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON)) { - restart = 1; - VR_CLRBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON)); - } + if (sc-sc_mii.mii_media_status IFM_ACTIVE + IFM_SUBTYPE(sc-sc_mii.mii_media_active) != IFM_NONE) { + sc-vr_link = 1; + + if (CSR_READ_2(sc, VR_COMMAND) (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON)) + VR_CLRBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, + (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON)); - if ((media IFM_GMASK) == IFM_FDX) - VR_SETBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, VR_CMD_FULLDUPLEX); - else - VR_CLRBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, VR_CMD_FULLDUPLEX); + if ((media IFM_GMASK) == IFM_FDX) + VR_SETBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, VR_CMD_FULLDUPLEX); + else + VR_CLRBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, VR_CMD_FULLDUPLEX); - if (restart) VR_SETBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON); + } else { + sc-vr_link = 0; + VR_CLRBIT16(sc, VR_COMMAND, (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON)); + for (i = VR_TIMEOUT; i 0; i--) { + DELAY(10); + if (!(CSR_READ_2(sc, VR_COMMAND) + (VR_CMD_TX_ON|VR_CMD_RX_ON))) + break; + } + if (i == 0) { +#ifdef VR_DEBUG + printf(%s: rx shutdown error!\n, sc-sc_dev.dv_xname); +#endif + sc-vr_flags |= VR_F_RESTART; + } + } } void @@ -1132,11 +1150,11 @@ vr_start(struct ifnet *ifp) struct mbuf *m_head; struct vr_chain *cur_tx; - if (ifp-if_flags IFF_OACTIVE) - return; - sc = ifp-if_softc; + if (ifp-if_flags IFF_OACTIVE || sc-vr_link == 0) + return; + cur_tx = sc-vr_cdata.vr_tx_prod; while (cur_tx-vr_mbuf == NULL) { IFQ_DEQUEUE(ifp-if_snd, m_head); @@ -1283,6 +1301,7 @@ vr_init(void *xsc) CSR_WRITE_2(sc, VR_IMR, VR_INTRS); /* Restore state of BMCR */ + sc-vr_link = 1; mii_mediachg(mii); ifp-if_flags |= IFF_RUNNING; Index: if_vrreg.h === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_vrreg.h,v retrieving revision 1.21 retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -p -r1.21 -r1.22 --- if_vrreg.h 18 Jul 2008 13:38:40 - 1.21 +++ if_vrreg.h 28 Apr 2009 12:54:31 - 1.22 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $OpenBSD: if_vrreg.h,v 1.21 2008/07/18 13:38:40 thib Exp $ */ +/* $OpenBSD: if_vrreg.h,v 1.22 2009/04/28 12:54:31 mpf Exp $ */ /* * Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 @@ -350,7 +350,8 @@ struct vr_desc { #define VR_RXSTAT_RX_PHYS 0x0800 #define VR_RXSTAT_RX_BROAD 0x1000 #define VR_RXSTAT_RX_MULTI 0x2000 -#define VR_RXSTAT_RX_OK0x4000 +#define VR_RXSTAT_RX_VIDHIT0x4000 /* 6105M */ +#define VR_RXSTAT_RX_OK0x8000 #define VR_RXSTAT_RXLEN0x07FF
Re: [Soekris] Question with net5501
On 2009-09-06, der Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote: Looking at the diff between the 3.1 driver and the -current driver, most of the changes look irrelevant (eg, changing how to get the softc from the device), but there are some that aren't. None look obviously related to the Rhine III, but I don't know the chip, so it's possible some of the generic-looking changes are necessary for Rhine III support. There are a few changes in OpenBSD's vr(4) driver that it might be beneficial to bring across. (probably simpler than bringing .Fx's rewritten driver over). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Replace an ADSL modem-router
On 2009-08-19, Lars Nooden l...@umich.edu wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: Lars Nooden [l...@umich.edu] wrote: Chris Cappuccio wrote: this is essentially the same as an ultra-cheap versatek 170p modem... Not at all the same capabilities. Compare: http://www.traverse.com.au/downloads/adsl/vikingdat_03.pdf http://www.versatek.com/products/vxver170p.htm conexant vs. broadcom. a few more features on the v170p I think. Point to a HOWTO for running the 170p with NetBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux. I'll write one. Here it is: 1. Plug in the ethernet cable 2. ifconfig YourEthernet0 192.168.0.2/24 3. Telnet or HTTP to 192.168.0.1 4. Configure VPI/VCI and mode (RFC 1483 bridging, PPPoA, PPPoE, etc...) 5. Party like it's 1999 Hmm. You've skipped the part about loading the 170p with OpenWRT, Tomato, PFSense or something similar... the 170p would just be used instead of the viking card, not the whole card+soekris combination. it's nice to have a way to avoid the separate box, power supply and cable, but you clearly pay extra for that. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501-70 + tdm410
On 2009-06-10, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Is any one else using a tdm410 in one of these boxes ? How are you getting the power to the card for the FXS ports. I have noticed, just behind the molex connector pins P8 and digum talk about a pwr2400b which is a PCI face plate that connects to the cards some how !!!, I am thinking it is via these 2 pins, but I can't tell which is +ve and which is -ve or even if I am right. Have you tried asking Digium? Soekres might be time to expand the size of the box a little bit :) I've got a whole stack of cards which *just* don't fit the 5501 case. quad NICs, fibre NICs, SCSI controllers, ... another 5mm or so would make all the difference. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] NET5501 UDMA and SSD woes
On 2009-04-18, David Alexander listm...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:55:14 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-04-18, David Alexander listm...@cox.net wrote: I'd still like to figure out how to tell OpenBSD to try using a higher UDMA mode. search for 80-wire in /sys/dev/pciide.c, you'll find the checks which limit the device to mode 2. Thanks! Funny, I was looking for 40 when I needed to try 80. Found it and now I'm running at UDMA mode 5, although the gain wasn't significant. My simple read test went from 25MB/s to 30MB/s. Still, it's good to know that the OS isn't artificially limiting throughput and it's probably down to the 5501 now. Anyone else getting better SATA throughput? Considering the maximum ethernet speed, 25MB/s (200Mb/s of course) isn't really a bottleneck for much of what you might use a 5501 for. I haven't tried it on the Soekris, but by way of comparison, I have a 32GB Vertex in an OpenBSD amd64 box, seq reads are at 100MB/sec and writes at 50MB/sec with simple dd tests. (The speed of random access has to be seen to be believed...) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] NET5501 UDMA and SSD woes
On 2009-04-18, David Alexander listm...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:59:10 -0700, David Alexander listm...@cox.net wrote: According to the Soekris web page the 5501 has an UltraDMA-100 controller. I'm having trouble getting it to try anything above UDMA mode 2. My problem is that I just bought an OCZ Vertex SSD and according to atactl it only supports ATA-5, 6, and 7...aka UDMA modes 3 and above. So now I'm stuck with a machine that supports up to mode 2 and a drive that needs mode 3 or higher. Well, I found out that part of my problem was having the SSD and the CF on the same channel at the same time. Once I copied all my data from the CF to the SSD and removed the CF the SSD started working fine at UDMA mode 2. This gives me performance equal to my CF card with reads in the 25MB/s range. I'd still like to figure out how to tell OpenBSD to try using a higher UDMA mode. search for 80-wire in /sys/dev/pciide.c, you'll find the checks which limit the device to mode 2. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Hardware reset
On 2009-03-26, Soekris Mailinglist soek...@nixtech.net wrote: Is there a way to see if the box has been reset by pressing the hardware reset button? The box is 4501 and 5501 both running Linux-2.6.28 Thanks, Thomas Albech there's a BIOS Reset setting which switches between the button doing a hard reset, and being a soft button readable on a GPIO pin. is that what you're looking for, or were you after something to tell you if that's what caused the previous reboot? (which I don't think is possible). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Hardware problems with new 5501
On 2009-03-24, Vasily Ivanov vas...@anabar.ru wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:57:26AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: 1. I cannot do upgrade of BIOS (1.33-1.33c) cu on OpenBSD works reliably following these instructions: http://wiki.soekris.info/Updating_Bios#cu_and_tip it fails also. -- . download - ~C lsz -X b.bin Sending b.bin, 784 blocks: Give your local Xmodem receive command now Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 0/0k Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 19/2k Retry 0: NAK on sectors Xmodem sectors/kbytes: 80/0k Retry 0: Got 72 for sector ACK Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK ...(11 times retry) Retry 0: Timeout on sector ACK Transer incomplete --- Then I would have to guess at a cable problem, I can confirm this method has worked many times for me, on all sorts of hardware (real and USB serial ports, 4501/4521/4526/4801/5501) and cables (homemade DE9-RJ45 adapters, commercial 3-wire cables, commercial null modem cables).. Below I attached four logs: a) with the only CF card. There OpenBSD 4.5 on card, this system is correctly work on laptop, for example. b) with the on HDD, OpenBSD 4.5 . c) PXEBoot log with OpenBSD 4.4 d) two attempts to do BIOS upgrade The a,b and c have the same finish. you missed set tty com0 at the boot loader prompt. Yes, I had done it in cases a) and b) --- I had got absolutely empty output. Thanks, Vasily ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Hardware problems with new 5501
On 2009-03-24, Vasily Ivanov vas...@anabar.ru wrote: Hi, all Last week I've got a new 5501-70 box. Unfortunally, there are a number of problems with this box. 1. I cannot do upgrade of BIOS (1.33-1.33c) cu on OpenBSD works reliably following these instructions: http://wiki.soekris.info/Updating_Bios#cu_and_tip 2. Three (CF, HDD, PXEBoot) ways of booting have failed :(. Below I attached four logs: a) with the only CF card. There OpenBSD 4.5 on card, this system is correctly work on laptop, for example. b) with the on HDD, OpenBSD 4.5 . c) PXEBoot log with OpenBSD 4.4 d) two attempts to do BIOS upgrade The a,b and c have the same finish. you missed set tty com0 at the boot loader prompt. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] upcoming changes to gpioctl behavior in openbsd ?
On 2009-01-23, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-01-23, Lars Noodén l...@umich.edu wrote: A while back Marc Balmer wrote: Beware that the GPIO subsystem has seen substantial changes recently. In -current, and thus upcoming releases, GPIO pins can only be configured at securelevel 0. Where is a description of the upcoming changes, for those who would like to plan? Regards -Lars It's probably simplest to just read the new version of the manual pages: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gpioctlmanpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gpiomanpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386 Oh, sorry; seems the online copy isn't updated yet; here it is in plaintext. GPIOCTL(8) OpenBSD System Manager's Manual GPIOCTL(8) NAME gpioctl - control GPIO devices SYNOPSIS gpioctl [-q] device attach device offset mask gpioctl [-q] device detach device gpioctl [-q] device pin [0 | 1 | 2] gpioctl [-q] device pin [on | off | toggle] gpioctl [-q] device pin set [flags] [name] gpioctl [-q] device pin unset DESCRIPTION The gpioctl program allows manipulation of GPIO (General Purpose In- put/Output) device pins. Such devices can be either part of the chipset or embedded CPU, or a separate chip. The usual way of using GPIO is to connect some simple devices such as LEDs and 1-wire thermal sensors to its pins. Each GPIO device has an associated device file in the /dev directory. device can be specified with or without the /dev prefix. For example, /dev/gpio0 or gpio0. GPIO pins can be either ``read'' or ``written'' with the values of logi- cal 0 or 1. If only a pin number is specified on the command line, the pin state will be read from the GPIO controller and displayed. To write to a pin, a value must be specified after the pin number. Values can be either 0 or 1. A value of 2 has a special meaning: it ``toggles'' the pin, i.e. changes its state to the opposite. Instead of the numerical values, the word on, off, or toggle can be used. Only pins that have been configured at securelevel 0, typically during system startup, are accessible once the securelevel has been raised. Pins can be given symbolic names for easier use. Besides using individu- al pins, device drivers that use GPIO pins can be attached to a gpio(4) device using the gpioctl command. The following configuration flags are supported by the GPIO framework: in input direction out output direction inout bi-directional od open-drain output pp push-pull output tri tri-state (output disabled) pu internal pull-up enabled pd internal pull-down enabled iin invert input ioutinvert output Note that not all the flags can be supported by the particular GPIO con- troller. When executed with only the gpio(4) device name as argument, gpioctl reads information about the GPIO device and displays it. At securelevel 0 the number of physically available pins is displayed, at higher se- curelevels the number of configured (set) pins is displayed. The options are as follows: -q Operate quietly i.e. nothing is printed to stdout. FILES /dev/gpiou GPIO device unit u file. EXAMPLES Configure pin 20 to have push-pull output: # gpioctl gpio0 20 set out pp Write logical 1 to pin 20: # gpioctl gpio0 20 1 Attach a onewire(4) bus on a gpioow(4) device on pin 4: # gpioctl gpio0 attach gpioow 4 0x01 Detach the gpioow0 device: # gpioctl gpio0 detach gpioow0 Configure pin 5 as output and name it error_led: # gpioctl gpio0 5 set out error_led Toggle the error_led: # gpioctl gpio0 error_led 2 SEE ALSO gpio(4) HISTORY The gpioctl command first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6. AUTHORS The gpioctl program was written by Alexander Yurchenko gra...@openbsd.org. Device attachment was added by Marc Balmer mbal...@openbsd.org. OpenBSD 4.4December 5, 2008 2 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF
On 2009-01-03, Lars Noodén l...@umich.edu wrote: A Net4801 unit I have is not letting me do PXE boot. Which of the settings get changed to allow PXE boot again? this, I expect: PCIROMS = Disabled ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] impossible to link eth1, eth2, eth3 but eth0 is well working
On 2008-12-05, stef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OS is working good and I made some tests in order to use it as a router. But it's impossible to communicate with eth1 eth2 eth3. eth0 is well working. As the other posts point out, this is a broken configuration. What are you actually trying to achieve? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom
On 2008-12-04, Ebbe Hjorth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just bought a soekris 5501, with flash, sata disk and a 40 to 44 pin converter, to boot from cdrom, but i think im missing a manual to get it booting from the cd rom, can you please advice? Right now i dont have the flash card in. It can not boot from CDROM. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom
On 2008-12-04, Andrew Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PXE boot isn't really for the faint hearted. depends on the OS. for some it's very simple providing you can read and follow instructions, just a handful of steps. for others iirc you get to either configure NFS or rebuild your boot loader... For a start you will need a Linux PC with a DHCP server and a proper PXE configuration/image. DHCP and TFTP servers are available for almost every OS, then you just need to place a boot-loader and kernel (and maybe a boot loader config file) in a directory accessible via TFTP, and configure DHCP. no need for Linux, or even any Unix-like OS. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Installing Debian Linux from a CD
is it possible to install Debian Linux from a Debian CD? No, the Soekris BIOS doesn't allow you to boot from CD. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3
On 2008-11-04, Andrew Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm aware that this problem doesn't apply in places where direct PPPoE connections are widely available: here in the UK, 99% of ISP connections are PPPoA only. nope, see BT SIN 386. working absolutely fine here and at some customers (it's my normal setup). not sure about LLU providers (well, tiscali definitely don't, I don't know about others), but they don't make up 99% of UK connections... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] pxeboot problems with net4801/openbsd
On 2008-10-27, Andrew Stack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tftp server and bsd.rd/boot.conf is in /tftpboot. boot.conf set tty pc0 stty pc0 19200 s/pc0/com0/ and move the file to /tftpboot/etc/boot.conf boot bsd.rd it's usually better to use set image bsd.rd here, then you get a chance to type at the boot loader if you need to. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Linux IDE driver for CF card
On 2008-10-01, Thorsten M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a a Linux system with strpped down kernel on my net4501 You do mean _4501_ not 5501? board. Now my problem is, that the CF card is really slow. hdparm shows ~2 MB/s transfer speed and UDMA is disabled. I don't think 4501 has UDMA. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards
On 2008-09-05, Ryan Corder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM +0700, Soekris Maillist wrote: | Anyone know where to buy these? | | The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is | extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. If you do find anything that small, please let ALL of us know. What's the point? They won't be any cheaper. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] mini-pci serial (was: Two PCI peripherals on one unit?)
On 2008-08-22, Lars Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since soekris devices have one mini-pci slot, would it be possible then to use the regular PCI for extra ethernet while using the mini-PCI for 2-port RS-232 card? Yes, of course. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] COM2 Problem with OpenBSD4.3 on NET4501
On 2008-07-23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great suggestions everyone! We're definitely getting closer. Indeed I am certain the wiring is correct; that was one of the first things I checked. Instead, this is looking more like an OpenBSD configuration or hardware issue. For example, if I jumper TX and RX together on the IDC10 header as suggested above and run a simple loopback program (listed below), I receive 0 bytes back on the read. Please try a known working program until you are sure the hardware is ok. With txd looped to rxd, when you cu -l /dev/cua01 and type something, it should be immediately displayed back. This program displays both 9600 for the old and new rates. If I try that here, it leaves the port in a state where if I try and use cu afterwards, it will receive but not transmit. I'm not entirely certain of how OpenBSD differentiates the tty and cua devices See tty(4) (man 4 tty). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] HDD 500 Gb Sata problem on 5501
On 2008-07-17, Erwin Geuens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for a customer we want to use a 500 Gb sata disk (WD caviar GP500) as mini file server. However during boot (bios 1.33) the disk is recognized as 136 Gb with parameters 1024-255-63. Is there a way to fix this? Thx Erwin PS: we will boot on a 4 Gb CF first, the HDD is a data disk. it probably doesn't matter, the OS should see the whole disk. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] working wireless minipci cards in 802.11a or g mode under OpenBSD 4.3
On 2008-07-17, Guillaume FORTAINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.oxfordtec.com/uk/p119/SparkLAN-WMIR-215GN-WLAN-802.11n-draft-MiniPCI-Wifi-Module---Laptop-Internal-Ralink-RT2860-Chipset-Wireless-Adapter/product_info.html I've got one of those exact cards as an AP, it works nicely. I don't know if it does 54Mb/s, 11Mb is fine for my use. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501 network throughput
On 2008-07-05, Chris Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A 5501 can handle the full bandwidth of 100M links. However whether a 5501 can handle your environment depends on how complex a ruleset you are planning on using for firewalling. Besides ruleset, it also depends a lot on how many packets per second, and assuming a stateful firewall, how many of those have to traverse the whole ruleset. 5501 is pretty tight for a link you *expect* to run at 100Mb/s. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Traverse Technologies Viking PCI ADSL2+ Card
On 2008-06-26, David Coppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to build a compact ADSL router with some server capabilities (http, smtp) using a net5501-70 and the adsl2 pci card in the subject. Will this card work/fit well? Anyone using It? The size should be ok for the standard case, and it says the right things about voltage. Unfortunately the manual for net5501 isn't available and the details on the website don't mention how much power can be drawn. Even if it did, you'd also need to know the power consumption of other devices (e.g. MiniPCI, hard drive if you have one). PCI Interface: 32 bit PCI Rev 2.2 3.3V or 5V Signalling Universal Keying for 3.3V or 5V PCI Power Supplies: 3.3, 5 12VDC Consumption: 8W (ADSL2+ typical) Physical Dimensions: 138mm * 55mm * 15mm (L*H*W) http://www.traverse.com.au/downloads/adsl/vikingdat_03.pdf The onboard Ethernet controller (RTL8139) makes the modem appear to the O/S as a standard Network card. Thus drivers are not a problem. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Compatibility Issue w/ Soekris 5501 and Cisco 2640 Switch
On 2008-06-11, Chuck (Doc) Beaudette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I replaced the 4801 with a new 5501, the throughput between the Cisco 2640 and the Soekris router dropped to next to nothing. We tried several different configurations (Auto negotiate, fixed 100mb Full-Duplex, etc.), nothing seemed to make any difference. Finally, we put a Netgear switch between the Cisco 2640 and the Soekris 5501 which cleared the problem. The 2640 is an older swtich, so the next option is try an upgrade to a 2660 switch then see if we can connect the Soekris directly. Which OS/version? There is a bug in auto negotiation order in some PHY drivers based on FreeBSD (now fixed there) that affects cisco 3550 and maybe it also affects others.. (actually the problem only happens with a combination of a bug in the PHY driver and a cisco bug). http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=92599 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Cold boot failures on Net5501?
On 2008-06-10, Chris Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried many different models and brands of non-industrial flash, and there seems to be significant differences in what ATA capabilities different cards have. In practice, the vendors don't seem to include the ATA interface differences in their benchmarks, and the ATA capabilities can make a significant difference in performance. I have a Lexar card here that is supposed to be a 300x card and a SanDisk that is a 200x card, and the SanDisk performs about 20% faster despite the difference in official speed. (Note: Lexar cards _SUCK_ on Soekris because they don't honor CS in any sane way) Yes really, use SanDisk. All the 2GB+ and all recent 1GB have multi-sector I/O transfers, this improves performance a lot. And they reset correctly, that's a big help if you have to use them in a system built using the old CF spec, it saves forcing the OS to disable DMA, and also helps this problem on the Soekris boards. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 19 Rackmount Case for the 5501
On 2008-06-04, Carlos Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a 3rd party vendor who might have a 19 rack mount case for the net5501 boards? http://wiki.soekris.info/Alternative_chassis ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Net5501 and pfsense / no CF boot
On 2008-05-30, C. Schlecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --===0199348912== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_Part_4507_11920883.1212155576987 ugh I have a Net5501-70and tried to install pfsence. First, I copied the image on a CF card and tried to boot -- no boot device available. It might be useful to describe how you copied it. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD installation problem
On 2008-05-22, Georgios Tsarpalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just bought a net5501 and I'm trying to install OpenBSD 4.3 on it without success. I follow the standard pxeboot procedure as described in the documentation, but the serial connection just seems to hang whenever I type the set tty com0 command. If I simply try to boot the kernel image will load but there is no output after that. Any ideas? This happened both with cu and screen using a thinkpad with openbsd and ubuntu. Until a couple of weeks ago the boot loader accessed the serial port hardware via the BIOS, which isn't working on this board unless you have the modem control lines wired up in your null-modem cable. Try a -current snapshot, the boot loader has been rewritten to access the port directly. Alternatively if you *really* don't want to run -current, you can pull just the boot loader from a snapshot, but it's simpler to just use the whole thing. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] OpenBSD and Net5501-70 'vr' issues?
On 2008-05-21, K K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Moe Sizlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone mentioned earlier the problem seems to be entirely vr driver related. This makes me concerned. We've had a couple of 5501's from KD85 running as simple Internet firewalls (OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3) for a couple of months now with no reliability issues, and I just ordered four more systems for deployment on new installs where we need only a few megabits (6-16). Should we worry? If it's plugged into a switch which stays up when the 5501 is up, no. If you plug PCs which reboot often straight into the 5501, yes. I'd really prefer to avoid such a workaround, but if that is necessary, is there any particular dual-port card known to work well? Everything I tried which physically fits has worked ok, but the standard case is *just* too short for the Sun QFE or SysKonnect 1000baseSX in my pile... quad em(4) and dual fxp(4) have been fine. Very disappointing. Where's the best place to find and follow details for this problem? There's been a bit of mention here and on an openbsd list (I think it was tech@). I started to look at the freebsd diff (fixed in 1.129 - 1.130 of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vr/if_vr.c) but slightly lost interest as I'm only using them with a switch so I don't experience too much pain from it... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] hard reset required on soekris box when connecting via xp (non-html)
On 2008/05/18 12:56, Peter van Oord van der Vlies wrote: I have the same issue on openbsd 4.2(not tried 4.3 yet) 4.3 won't help this problem. Sometimes it will not allow any traffic on the interface that is connected by a cross-cable. Only on machines that runs VISTA/XP i had this issue. The only solution was reset. the soekris. ifconfig vr# media auto (replace # with the correct number) should also unwedge it. I also see this when I repeatedly plug/unplug a connection to some types of switch. Affected interfaces can transmit but not receive. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] What is the max power supplied to PCI slot of net4801, and if it is possible to use multiple high power cards through mikrotik PCI extention board
On 2008-05-01, Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:49:39PM +0900, Izumi Utakoji wrote: Will it be possible to use multiple miniPCI high power cards, on net4801, through mikrotik 4 miniPCI slot PCI extention board? I want to use 600mW high power card from Engenius EMP-8602+S The 600mW relates to output power. Check the card specification to find out about input power requirements, hopefully it will tell you.. I don't know about the Soekris in particular but PCI specifies a maximum of 25W per slot. net4801 has a manual, you'll find the relevant information there. N.B. if you search the mailing list archives (marc/gmane) you'll find various warnings about running multiple radios in close proximity. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] openbsd install problem
On 2008-04-30, Chantal Rosmuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a file etc/boot.conf to the tftp directory with this content: set tty com0 stty com0 9600 boot bsd.rd I'd recommend set image bsd.rd so you can still type commands, it will then boot bsd.rd after a timeout. unfortunately it then starts printing a lot of jibberish, probably something to do with the serial console settings You just forced the port speed to 9600 in boot.conf, change combios console and terminal emulator speed to match (recommended), or change the stty com0 .. line to whatever speed you really use. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] openbsd install problem
On 2008-04-28, Chantal Rosmuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: booting tftp:/bsd: open tftp:/bsd: Unknown error: code 60 failed(60). will try /obsd any pointers would be welcome :) Any better if you add next-server tftp-server-ip-address; and restart dhcpd? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] openbsd install problem
On 2008-04-28, Jed Clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Kjetil wrote: I am trying to install openbsd but I keep getting an error message, booting tftp:/bsd: open tftp:/bsd: Unknown error: code 60 failed(60). will try /obsd [snip] Try add these two options to your dhcpd.conf (i assume your tftp server is the same as your dhcp server). next-server 10.0.0.100; option root-path /bsd; Some [not so] obvious things to check: Is /bsd and all relevant contents world readable? Did you restart inetd after uncommenting tftpd in /etc/inetd.conf? Did you set up the tcpd wrapper properly? From the linux box can you do manual tftp? tftp localhost get bsd.rd If these were wrong, the boot loader wouldn't be running. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 + openbsd + serial device
On 2008-04-27, jacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: printf \x11\x00\x00\x00\xB6\x00\x00\x00\xC7 /dev/tty dd if=/dev/tty of=/root/tmp/output bs=1 count=31 See man 4 tty ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] SATA cables on a net5501: where to hide them
On 2008-04-24, Lars Angus Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you expect to leave it in the wild for years of reliable service ? ...with a 2.5 SATA drive? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Network/CPU performance on net5501-70
On 2008-04-25, Wolfram Schlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - scp directly: avg 3.3 MB/s - scp via OpenVPN: avg 1.8 MB/s - netio directly:100 Mbit saturated - netio via OpenVPN: 2.6 MB/s TX, 3 MB/s RX - iperf directly:100 Mbit saturated - iperf via OpenVPN: 1.75 MB/s You don't go into detail about ciphers, but have you investigated this at all? Are you using the hardware acceleration present on the Geode LX? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4826 lockup issue and BIOS release
On 2008-04-18, Izumi Utakoji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, since I am a new comer here, allow me for the basic question, but how do you do search through the archive at Soekris site??? gmane or marc ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Ethernet outages/autodetect weirdness on Net4801
On 2008-04-19, Lars Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Net4801-60 (256MB RAM) with OpenBSD 4.2 that sometimes gets no link with either cross-over or straight-through cables. Sometimes it's enough to simply switch to a different cable of the same type. Other times, even though the cables are good (have used them with these and other devices) there is no link anyway. Other times, the port will work with those cables but only when connected to a different device. I haven't changed the system configuration in months and the problem seems to have only appeared in the last weeks. The link status lights on the Ethernet ports are normally are green (100baseT), but individual ports (usually only 1-3 of the 5) will go to yellow (10baseT) and stay that way. Or be off all together. What causes the ports to go offline completely? ifconfig up/down doesn't change anything. Though, sometimes switching from a cross-over to straight-through cable (or vice versa) fixes the problem. Are there situations in which the status must be forced? -Lars There are autoneg problems with some devices (e.g. cat3550 which advertises a media type it can't actually handle which causes a problem when coupled with a bug present in quite a few OS), but AIUI in those cases it still does the same (though wrong) thing each time. Have you tried a different PSU yet? If you don't have one handy, try removing devices (e.g. your 2-port card?) to lower the load and see if that helps. Especially if you have the PSU type that people have been reporting problems with on this list... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] PCI ADSL modem.
On 2008-04-18, Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering replacing a Net4521 OpenBSD firewall + D-Link DSL router with a Net5501 running OpenBSD as both router and firewall. Does anyone have any experience of using PCI or miniPCI ADSL cards in a Soekris device and ideally running OpenBSD? And being in the UK I'd be using PPPoA. OpenBSD doesn't support any PCI ADSL cards, I think most people are using a separate ethernet or occasionally USB router or modem. Despite common knowledge, PPPoE is fine for IPStream connections. It doesn't work on Tiscali LLU though. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501 vr(4) repeated unplug/replug - port stops working
On 2008/03/05 12:02, Mike Tancsa wrote: On FreeBSD, I created this simple userland script that resets the nic by watching for its up/down events in syslog's kern.* facility. The proper fix on FreeBSD is at Ah, good idea. The OpenBSD kernel doesn't log interface events, but this can be done nicely with ifstated (or people using OSPF can find the state changes in their ospfd logs). http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vr/ Diffing this against the old driver makes a lot of output with style changes as well as code changes so it's a lot to sift through, I've been working through it gradually but it's taking me a while... ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] net5501 vr(4) repeated unplug/replug - port stops working
I've seen some problems with the onboard NICs on net5501, where if the device connected is unplugged and replugged, the interface has link, is able to transmit packets, but is unable to receive packets (nothing shown in tcpdump on the interface). Bringing the interface down and back up fixes it. Has anyone noticed this on OS other than OpenBSD? ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net4801 problem pxeboot'ing OpenBSD 4.2 from FreeBSD 6.3
On 2008/02/21 14:47, Bernd Walter wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:30:30PM +, Adam Retter wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008/02/20 23:08, Adam Retter wrote: The console output over COM0 from the net4801 is below, but basically I have no idea what Unknown error: code 60 (from pxeboot?) means? 60 is ETIMEDOUT, according to OpenBSD's intro(2). iirc the normal OS error codes are used in the boot loader. are you aware of any network problems, bad cables or duplex mismatch maybe? Erm nope im not aware of any problems, the cables are all new and work for network traffic otherwise. The net4801 is connected to a Netgear 8-port 10/100/1000Mbit switch and the FreeBSD machine is also connected to the switch. Using the same physical setup with its current OpenBSD 3.7 operating system, I am able to SSH into the net4801 and browse the web etc (its used as a F/W and Router). Hmm, anything I can do to find out why its timing out? You already tftp'ed the loader and just NFS is failing, so you have to search for NFS related problems. OpenBSD pxeboot doesn't do NFS, only tftp. It's easily-configured and normally very effective. switching console to com0 OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 2.02 booting tftp:bsd.rd: | booting tftp:bsd.rd: 4733076read text: Unknown error: code 60 failed(60). will try /bsd ...it has loaded most of the file, but fails somewhere near the end. Adam can you successfully get this file using tftp(1) on another machine? Just to double-check, did you note what I said about duplex settings? (No offense meant if you did). If the switch and the installed OS are forced to full-duplex, things would work OK for the installed OS, but you might expect to have some problems if pxeboot auto-detects the duplex setting but the switch is forced. For the upgrade you could just skip pxebooting and copy bsd.rd into / on the running system, then choose it at the boot loader, but it's strange that it should be failing like this. It should just work. I haven't tried with FreeBSD as a tftp server but PXE is my normal way to install OpenBSD, even on normal PCs, and I've not seen this happen before (between temporary installations for testing, permanent installations, and upgrades, I've done this quite often). ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 2.5 hdd vendors
On 2008/02/20 20:04, Torben Nielsen wrote: Hi The wiki[1] mentions 2.5 drives from Hitachi and Fujitsu, but does anybody have experience with the Seagate Momentus[2] series ? According to the seagate website, these disks are also apropriate for server use. [1] http://wiki.soekris.info/What_2.5%22_hard_drives_are_suitable [2] http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/laptops/momentus/ I have a Momentus amongst the drives that failed fairly quickly in a net4801, but I didn't know how to turn off idle mode on the drives back then, maybe they'll last longer if that is done. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Anyone know what JP3 does on net5501?
On 2008/02/13 16:24, Bob Camp wrote: There is a dark side to this. The better you document the product, the easier it is to duplicate. Simply buying parts and tossing them on a pc board is pretty easy these days. Documenting without giving away to much is a fairly difficult art. People aren't asking for something in great depth, something like the manual that the main competitor to Soekris has for their Geode LX boards, or the existing manuals for net4501/4801, would be plenty of information and doesn't give too much away. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Anyone know what JP3 does on net5501?
On 2008/02/13 21:05, Stephen Patrick wrote: How about a WikiManual? Everyone contribute? There already is one at http://wiki.soekris.info/, but bear in mind it is just information from random people on the internet who, even with the best intentions, might not be totally accurate. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] What ever happened to the 5501 19 inch case from Soekris itself?
On 2008/01/25 12:22, Mark K. Mellis wrote: I may be asleep at the switch here - did the 19 inch case for the 5501 that is mentioned on the Soekris web site ever ship? If not, any alternatives to the applianceshop.eu one mentioned on the list the other day? http://wiki.soekris.info/Alternative_chassis ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Smallest possible MFS /dev on OpenBSD
On 2008/01/21 12:18, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: there is no typo, but I forgot to tell that the system I use was old : uname -a OpenBSD xx 3.8 GENERIC#138 i386 and mount_mfs -i 256 -s 592 -P /var/run/dev swap /dev http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=120086358424135w=2 explains why this doesn't work the same way in 4.2 and suggests an alternative. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Smallest possible MFS /dev on OpenBSD
On 2008/01/16 17:43, Lars Noodén wrote: Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: ... To reduce the /dev memory fs space ... - delete unused devices. # du -h /dev 1.0K/dev/fd 34.0K /dev What is the safest or most efficient method to go about doing that? The safest and most efficient method is to leave it alone. If you have a real problem with RAM use, there's probably some easier and safer way to fix it than shaving off kilobytes here. But if you're not at that point, why worry? :-) ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] mounting /dev in RAM in OpenBSD
On 2007/12/22 20:29, Lars Noodén wrote: It's not the same with /dev, however. I've tried a few variations, e.g. swap /dev mfs -P/dev.base,async,rw,-s=5000,-i=128 0 0 This is fine, just make sure you don't remove /dev from / (it works fine just overlaying it with the MFS), just make dev.base a copy of it (or just copy MAKEDEV across and run it by hand). This, which is practically the same as yours, works fine for me: swap /dev mfs rw,nosuid,-s=4096,-i=1024,-P=/dev_src 0 0 ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Choosing Compact flash (Was: Memory upgrade)
On 2007/12/18 00:33, Joel Jaeggli wrote: sata ssds that are even faster are possible but command a substantial price premium... In the 5501, it looks like the SATA connector is bridged to the same IDE interface as the CF card. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] New kernel .config on Wiki
On 2007/11/24 07:07, windowlicker 259 wrote: Where is this wiki located. I have been looking for a kernel .config for a net4801 for quite a while. soekris.info ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] bios upgrade
On 2007/11/18 14:35, Lyle Scott III wrote: i inherited a net4511 board and i am trying to update the BIOS from 1.26a to current. I am in hyperterm under windows and log in great. I type download and it prompts me to send file using XMODEM. I send the file using XMODEM in hyper term and i get unrequested response as the error. Check flow control is set to none; also try 'download -' ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] What is the meaning of BIOS parameter ConMute?
On 2007/10/19 09:51, Bill Maas wrote: as the other soekris-tech list members stubbornly refuse to go into your original question it's mentioned here: http://www.soekris.com/Software/changelog.txt ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] net5501 DMA (unsupported)
On 2007/10/12 11:33, Otfried Geffert wrote: even after an BIOS update to 1.32i my OpenBSD 4.0 tells me that DMA on IDE is still unsupported. Support for CS5536 was added about a year ago, it's in OpenBSD 4.1. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech