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Soekris Net4801 review [fr]

8 novembre 2009
By Askarel in en

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I have been using the Soekris Net4801 for a few years and here are my impressions

Soekris_net4801_boardThe good

  • This computer is small, power efficient, reliable and hacker-friendly.
  • It just has the needed hardware to make a decent router out-of-the-box and a little bit more.
  • It comes with a serial console to make configuration easy.
  • The BIOS can be set up, upgraded and flashed from the serial port.
  • It has GPIOs if you want to add custom hardware.
  • Bootable compact flash slot: enable you to build a router with no moving parts.
  • If the compact flash do not meet your needs, there is an optional bracket and cable to plug an IDE laptop harddisk.
  • One PCI slot and one mini-PCI slot for extensions like a WiFi card

The bad

  • This machine is underpowered: if you ask a little bit more than routing to the machine (file serving, playing MP3’s, imap server,…), performances are going straight to the toilet and you end up waiting… waiting… waiting…
  • Lack of USB ports: There is only one USB 1.0 port on the machine, limiting its potential.
  • The CF card slot is on the same IDE bus than the harddisk: if you want to use both, make sure the harddisk is configured as a slave device. You might want to test several compact flash cards for compatibility: many CF cards have a buggy IDE/ATA interface that will cause you headaches.

This machine should not be used as a file server due to the poor disk I/O performances, even with DMA on. I would like to see a similar setup with an Intel Atom CPU, a decent chipset and 4 USB 2.0 ports, then we would have a killer home server appliance.

Where to buy (europe)

I bought my board via Wim Vandeputte. This guy is reliable and is present at every event related to the free software movement.

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Reconfigurer le SpeedTouch Pro/510 en mode bridge simple [fr]

18 octobre 2009
By Askarel in fr

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Tapez ces commandes dans une console telnet vers le modem/routeur


:atmf flush # Résulte en une erreur sur le STH hacké
:ppp flush
:pptp flush
:cip flush
:bridge flush
:mer flush
:phonebook flush
:phonebook add name=br1 addr=8.35 type=bridge # 8.35=VPI.VCI pour la Belgique
:bridge config age=300
:bridge ifadd dest=br1
:bridge portadd dest=br1 proto=llc # Résulte en une erreur sur le STH hacké
:bridge portconfig port=br1 state=forwarding # Résulte en une erreur sur le STH hacké
:bridge ifconfig intf=br1 encaps=llc/snap retry=10 portstate=forwarding
:bridge ifattach intf=br1
:config save

Certaines commandes telnet se terminent en erreur: pas de quoi s’inquiéter: ces commandes sont là pour compatibilité avec d’autres versions de firmwares

Source: http://www.forpage.com (lien cassé)

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