FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE on EdgeRouter Lite notes/issues
Daniel Engberg
daniel.engberg.lists at pyret.net
Wed Aug 27 23:52:35 UTC 2014
Hi Sean,
I'm one user running FreeBSD on the ERL boxes, which in my case works
fine except for the dreaded issue that altq doesn't support the new
framework that octe uses so no QoS on the ERLs for now. There's also a
PR about this which I've submitted.
1. I've really avoided generating new images because I remember have
figuring out quite a bit of "fun" commands to get this running and
aligned properly or at least I think I managed to do so. For some reason
I used memory mapped filesystems due to endianess which was quite a
pain, at least that's my experience. I based it on
http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/mkoctimage , I think I have the whole set
of commands here somewhere if you're interested. That said, while I do
get i/o timeouts (swapper times out) if I write lets say a 6Gb large
file using dd but normal usage is fine most of the time.
2. No idea about the tftp issue, never tried it at all.
3. As above, at least using a Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 16Gb flash drive
it works pretty good, sure it's not like a SSD but it runs along fine in
general.
4. Haven't tried ports recently but I do have a pretty old box that
builds fine (FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sat May 4 01:29:11 UTC 2013), I do
have a newer revision (r267486) which seems to work fine including
building. You can find it here
http://randominfo.pyret.net/index.php?controller=page&action=view&id_page=1 (image is a raw copy off a Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 16Gb flash drive).
5. Haven't played around with tcpdump so I don't know, anything
particular you want me to try as I can probably have a look at it next
week.
Best regards,
Daniel
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