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From: P. Souza
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 11:41 am

Has anyone tested the network throughput on these sweet little things?


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From: David Gwynne
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 2:49 pm

not really. ive always been limited by the speed of wireless, or the speed of
the dsl link im using. i havent got close to high cpu usage on my rb600 unless
i was compiling stuff.


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From: Liam Farr
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 2:57 pm

I'd be quite keen to get OpenBSD running on the RB1000.

I tried writing the miniroot47.fs to a CF card and booting off that, (on the off chance that it might work), but didn't get very far.

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RouterBOOT booter 2.20

RouterBoard 1000

CPU frequency: 1333 MHz
  Memory size: 512 MB

Press any key within 2 seconds to enter setup..
Booting CF
Loading kernel... done
setting up elf image... OK

|/-boot> 
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At this point the serial console just hangs.

I was hoping that it might work as the RB600A and RB1000 CPU / SOC seem similar (MPC8343/E and MPC8547/E).


Liam


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From: P. Souza
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 5:36 pm

> Has anyone tested the network throughput on these sweet little things?

Not that relevant but I thought I'd share my findings anyway.
According to some page I found(TM), the RB600 measured about 250 Mbps
on iperf on both debian and routerOS[1].

I was expecting more since the routerboard performance tests[2] show a
routing performance between 592-745 Mbps with 1500 byte packets. Even
so, seems like a nice alix substitute since, at least locally, the
price difference is negligible.

[1] www.marlow.dk/wiki/index.php/RouterboardPPC#Performance
[2] www.routerboard.com/pdf/routerboard_performance_tests.pdf


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From: David Gwynne
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 6:19 pm

there's a big difference between forwarding and terminating traffic on a box
which could explain those numbers.

still, how openbsd copes will be different again.


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From: P. Souza
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 2:35 pm

There's a [new-ish] RB800. It's probably due to that.


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From: David Vasek
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:41 pm

Could be. It has more RAM, on the other hand it comes with a fan and costs 
about twice as much. At least its listed power rating isn't higher. I have 
no insight in PowerPC and can't tell if MPC8544 could be made to run with 
OpenBSD easily.

Regards,
David


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From: Theo de Raadt
Subject: Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 3:52 pm

MPC8544 is BookE, not ABI compliant with PowerPC.


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