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rafit
12-20-2003, 03:18 AM
Hi,
please what is the status of the RouterBoard support? Is installation smooth? Is performane ok?
solo
lonnie
12-20-2003, 01:57 PM
It is as easy as any other system. You need the ability to write a flash disk with the image. We have a special SBC image for the Routerboard and the WRAP board. They have enough CPU power to do 15 to 30 mbps and the ram size is adequate since the Routerboard can plug in as much as you want.
It is a reliable piece of hardware and does a very good job.
Have one online now, 29 days uptime haven't had a single hiccup out of it.
angilberto
12-22-2003, 06:29 AM
It is as easy as any other system. You need the ability to write a flash disk with the image. We have a special SBC image for the Routerboard and the WRAP board. They have enough CPU power to do 15 to 30 mbps and the ram size is adequate since the Routerboard can plug in as much as you want.
It is a reliable piece of hardware and does a very good job.
how about ethernet lockups, very common on the Soekris 45x1 ?
It seems to me Routerboard has a similar ethernet chips, am I wrong?
Angilberto.
butchkemper
12-22-2003, 09:31 PM
We were having a problem with a couple of Soekris 4521 boxes that would bring up and then drop the ethernet connection when the configuration was activated or the box was restarted.
This behavior was most fustrating because it would randomly happen. After several restarts, power off/on sequences, hopping on one leg, biting my lip, and thinking bad thoughts about the soekris, the ethernet would finally stay up. Until the next restart.
Since upgrading to CPE version 1.13.2, the problem has not happened. I think there was an ethernet driver update in 1.13.X.
Butch
Yes, the national ethernet device driver was updated in the v1.13.x releases. This new version seems to have resolved many of the problems the soekris had in previous releases.
angilberto
12-23-2003, 07:25 AM
Yes, the national ethernet device driver was updated in the v1.13.x releases. This new version seems to have resolved many of the problems the soekris had in previous releases.
Great! -- Its time for me to upgrade my twenty-some StarOS bases :=)
Angilberto.
Steve
12-23-2003, 08:45 AM
We found on the Soekris's that if you deactivate/reactivate an IP on the offending ethernet port it will bring it back up. Doesn't help much if its on "the other side" but it works if you can get to it.
angilberto
12-23-2003, 01:14 PM
We found on the Soekris's that if you deactivate/reactivate an IP on the offending ethernet port it will bring it back up. Doesn't help much if its on "the other side" but it works if you can get to it.
You are right, Steve -- I ve been doing for a couple of months but I am seek and tired of this -- every once and then I got a call from customers and when you dig down to the problem -- LAN problems !
Angilberto.