Trashwall Failure
February 12, 2008
Hrm, the Trashwall failed sometime during the night.
I think it may have bad RAM… I’ll have to hang a serial console off of it so I can actually watch it go down.
<sigh>
This stuff is never as straightforward as it should be.
The perils of dealing with junk hardware.
Yep. At least I saw the command line memory tester I was playing with earlier freak out. There’s two DIMMs in it so I’ll just pull the alternately and try again.
While I realize the attraction of DIYing a wireless router and switch for less than $100 out of parts you mostly had lying around, the reliability issues would be driving me nuts. I’m much more likely to make a similar attempt using a WRT or better yet a Soekris router board.
The Soekris stuff doesn’t support OpenBSD. :(
Well, not well at least… No support for the 802.11 card, specifically.
Are you sure? I could swear that a fried of mine in Ohio is running OpenBSD on a Soekris.
I’ll check with him though.
To be honest, I can’t recall why I ruled it out… I thought it was a compatibility issue.
Also, they don’t have enough ports for what I want. :(
Admittedly, my friend who runs a couple as the core routers in his home network uses a fairly smart 24 port switch and VLAN trunking to the Soekris.
Yeah. :( That’s what I’m not wanting to do… I just want to have the one box be the switch and all.