Re: anyone ever try OpenBSD on a Geode GX CPU?

[Kevin <kongnamool@yahoo.com>]

I recall paying a little over $500 for the NC2 with a
Celeron 500-600MHz (can't remember clock speed
exactly), a 20GB hard drive and 128MB of RAM.  The
model I have also does not have a cdrom, just floppy.

The combo stand/power supply unit is extra but
probably worth it, that external power supply it comes
with always seems in the way.  I have no idea how much
it costs.


--K


--- Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> wrote:
> Were those flytech boxes affordably priced? Alot of
> these mini solutions are
> near $1K once you get everything you need. May as
> well go with a Netscreen
> at that price.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin" <kongnamool@yahoo.com>
> To: "Diana Eichert" <deichert@wrench.com>
> Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: anyone ever try OpenBSD on a Geode GX
> CPU?
> 
> 
> > Hi Diana,
> >
> > I have a small design here with a Geode GX 300MHz
> and
> > it is a dog.  I have to blame the CPU because it
> makes
> > a decent router but when I start encrypting
> packets it
> > suddenly runs like molasses (sp?).  I would highly
> > recommend using an encryption accelerator (as you
> > indicate you might do) if you do IPSec over your
> box.
> > The design we are using is slightly customized for
> us
> > and is a small aluminum box with three Realtek
> > ethernet and a notebook-style IDE header which we
> use
> > a flash card in.  We run the emBSD dist straight
> from
> > flash...  Using a memory filesystem is probably a
> > better way to go.  For kicks, we will be trying
> this
> > with an embedded Linux-FreeS/WAN image and see if
> the
> > performance is still doggy (seeing if getting rid
> of
> > IDE accesses helps any).  Anyone know of an
> > OpenBSD-based RAMDisk image that compresses to
> 5-10MB
> > that is ready to go?  There used to be a dist/file
> > called kindofblue.tgz somewhere that was a ready
> > OpenBSD RAMDisk image but I can't seem to find it
> > anymore.
> >
> > For a design similar to the Allwell box, can I
> > recommend Flytech?
> >
> > http://www.flytech.com.tw
> >
> > The NC-series boxes are pretty small.  As small or
> > smaller than the Allwell box you link to and don't
> > have all the video in-out crap.  Also, you have a
> > choice of Cyrix?, AMD K-6 or 2nd gen Celeron.  The
> NC1
> > or 2 I believe has onboard ethernet and 2 PCI
> slots.
> > The power supply is external (is that the same
> with
> > the Allwell box?). I have an NC2 (I think) and it
> was
> > working great for a long while as my home OpenBSD
> > server running Qmail, djbdns and being a kick-ass
> VPN
> > (without acceleration I might add).  The onboard
> > ethernet recently failed, it suddently no longer
> > exists, but I don't hold that against Flytech.
> > Hardware just sucks, period.  We shall see now how
> > good their techsupport is.
> >
> >
> > --Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to make a low power/low noise router
> and
> > > I ran across the
> > > following system.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://www.allwell.tv/Products/Set_Top_Box/set_top_box_0.html
> > >
> > > They use the Geode GX CPU's.  They aren't on the
> > > i386 hardware page but
> > > I'm thinking some brave soul out there has tried
> to
> > > install OpenBSD on
> > > one.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > diana
> > Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions!
> > http://auctions.yahoo.com
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