[TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for router, dhcpd/named, firewall

[Greg Brown]

Good point, a couple years go Evil Mike posted something in his blog on a
conf file in OpenBSD that would essentially make the OS read-only and not
write to the CF card.  He was using the old OcuStat (from Oculan) hardware..
grrr... where is that link....


On 8/2/07, Magnus <magnus at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Jason Faulkner wrote:
> > Just a note -- in our usage here, the soekris have bogged down and
> > died somewhere in the realm of 10-15mbit/sec using OpenBSD. Not to
> > mention that unless you do use a r/o OS (like monowall), CF cards die
> > quickly.
>
> Something is fishy there.  There is probably a lot of room for
> optimization in your firewall rule set.  I've had older versions of
> OpenBSD (less efficient pf) on lesser hardware doing better throughput
> than that.  You ought to be able to squeeze a lot more out of the rule
> set.
>
> Also for a firewall there is no reason you can't mount your OpenBSD
> filesystems as read-only and extend the life of your CF media.
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