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Cisco / Linksys E4200

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Worthless waste of my cash. A 20$ pogoplug is more useful.

Cisco firmware does not allow subnets larger than /24
Cisco firmware does not allow virtual interfaces.
Cisco firmware does not allow jumbo frames.

130$ burned on useless trash.

If Open Source firmware is the only way to make Cisco products useful I'll buy 30$ devices in the future.

Wish I could get a refund.

FreeBSD -CURRENT- on sparc

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I've compiled from source and booted on a little v125 and two v440.

Love it!

http://pastebin.com/gyZ8Kk9A

http://pastebin.com/ZJLucUYx

I am persistent and stupid

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Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 22:40:34 UTC 2009
    root@araz.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
real memory  = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory = 16832954368 (16053 MB)
cpu0: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1281.00 MHz CPU)
cpu1: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1281.00 MHz CPU)
cpu2: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1281.00 MHz CPU)
cpu3: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIIi Processor (1281.00 MHz CPU)

Is sparc still useful?

I found a busted SunBlade 2500 at the office.

Now that it's on my desk what should I install?

While I like Solaris 10 on my big servers it seems pointless on an old junker with 4GB ram.

So what are my options? NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Linux?

Turns out I have no options. I've tried all of the above and none of them work! Not even the amazing run anywhere NetBSD.

Everyone should have ESXi at home!

I upgraded the host to 8GB RAM as I was worried about OpenSolaris choking on 1GB RAM


Project is well underway with the goal of hosting my FreeBSD8 host in a VM and keep the storage in ZFS on OpenSolaris.

The host is a bit slow but it's usable with BSD, Ubuntu and OpenSolaris running at the same time.

I give 512meg ram to Ubuntu, 4.5GB ram to OpenSolaris and 1.5GB RAM to FreeBSD8.

More later.