[Aurora-sparc-user] Re: Aurora-sparc-user Digest, Vol 42, Issue 5

[John Zbesko]

Thanks for the tips! I have a Sun 501-5443 4-Port Ethernet Module 10/100
SBus on order from eBay and I'll try to install the 2.6 kernel. I hope
the graphics card issues with the 2.6 kernel have been straightened
out...

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>    1. Ultra 1 as home router (John Zbesko)
>    2. Re: Ultra 1 as home router (Magnus)
>    3. Re: Ultra 1 as home router (Tom 'spot' Callaway)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:10:53 -0600
> From: John Zbesko <johnzbesko at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: [Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 1 as home router
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> So I measured my Comcast cable broadband speed both directly to an AMD64
> FX PC and then through my Ultra 1 with 10Mbit onboard ethernet connected
> to the cable modem and a 100Mbit card facing the AMD64 (through a
> gigabit switch.)
> 
> The download speed through the Ultra is 80% of the direct connection and
> the upload speed is less than half, 47%! (4103kbps vs. 5044kbps and 168
> vs. 358)
> 
> The Ultra is running 2.4.27-3-sparc64. Firestarter is my choice for
> configuring a firewall. The Ultra is also running Apache2, X, dhcp and
> samba servers, sshd and has 384 MB RAM.
> 
> Is this expected?! Should I just give up on this obsolete hardware?
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:19:03 -0500
> From: Magnus <magnus at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 1 as home router
> To: Aurora user discussion <aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org>
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> John Zbesko wrote:
> 
> > The Ultra is running 2.4.27-3-sparc64. 
> [snip]
> > Should I just give up on this obsolete hardware?
> 
> 
> Have you tried with Aurora 2.0, which uses a 2.6 series kernel?
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:39:22 -0600
> From: "Tom 'spot' Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 1 as home router
> To: Aurora user discussion <aurora-sparc-user at lists.auroralinux.org>
> Message-ID: <1168220362.7385.14.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:10 -0600, John Zbesko wrote:
> > So I measured my Comcast cable broadband speed both directly to an AMD64
> > FX PC and then through my Ultra 1 with 10Mbit onboard ethernet connected
> > to the cable modem and a 100Mbit card facing the AMD64 (through a
> > gigabit switch.)
> > 
> > The download speed through the Ultra is 80% of the direct connection and
> > the upload speed is less than half, 47%! (4103kbps vs. 5044kbps and 168
> > vs. 358)
> > 
> > The Ultra is running 2.4.27-3-sparc64. Firestarter is my choice for
> > configuring a firewall. The Ultra is also running Apache2, X, dhcp and
> > samba servers, sshd and has 384 MB RAM.
> > 
> > Is this expected?! Should I just give up on this obsolete hardware?
> 
> SBUS 10Mbit is going to be slower than PCI 100MBit. 2.6 might give it a
> boost.
> 
> ~spot
> 
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