On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 03:42:37AM +1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2023, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > The edgerouter 6p works with OpenBSD/octeon and has a rackmount bracket. > > Wow. And it has a serial port. with an RJ45 connector. Hopefully the RS232 > pinouts are nicely documented somewhere. Cannot seem to find those details > right now.
A cisco style rj45 serial cable works. > I wonder whether the Edgerouter 8 with double the RAM is a wiser choice? > > I will go and read the installation instructions for OpenBSD. > > I see there was some feedback in 2018 from Bryan. He used an SSD mounted > over the USB port (and had some issues). Looks like it works at up to about > 450Mbps. Probably enough. Probably should test it against 7.3 then. I have had one in production for 2 years until the USB stick failed. It was working reliably up to that point. An SSD would probably need an external power supply. I tried without one and saw I/O errors. But I don't see why it wouldn't work with a USB 3 to SATA adapter that also provides sufficient power.
