[debian-non-standard] Ok, now it rocks...

Martin Steigerwald Martin at lichtvoll.de
Fri Feb 22 23:45:00 CET 2008


Hi!

I put my ASUS WL-500g Premium into service. It now does the ADSL routing 
and iptables. The packets for this mail will go over it ;-). Seems to 
work nicely. I disabled swap for testing and it seems to be pretty fine:

gayatri:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         29896      24072       5824          0        652      14668
-/+ buffers/cache:       8752      21144
Swap:            0          0          0

(with a screen open in it)

I think I will add dnsmasq and some other stuff, probably OpenVPN, but 
otherwise thats what I wanted.

And kernel 2.6.24 would be interesting in order to make WLAN work in case 
I want to have it.

I am already thinking of using several USB sticks... when I am at a linux 
user group party, I just put in an WLAN router USB stick and when I am at 
some my ADSL routing USB stick... so the internal flash would just be 
the "bootloader" ;-), well lets see..

BTW how fast is your USB? I used a pretty fast and quite expensive USB 
stick for my Debian installation.

It had:

shambala> hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1226 MB in  2.00 seconds = 612.70 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   72 MB in  3.05 seconds =  23.61 MB/sec

on my notebook

and has:

gayatri:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:    90 MB in  2.00 seconds =  44.98 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   24 MB in  3.22 seconds =   7.45 MB/sec
gayatri:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:    92 MB in  2.03 seconds =  45.21 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   22 MB in  3.13 seconds =   7.04 MB/sec

on the ASUS.


Well I think in that case I could use the slower one I also bought, cause 
it still has 9,49 MB/s on my Notebook and use the faster one for my 
notebook:

shambala> hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   1098 MB in  2.01 seconds = 546.46 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   30 MB in  3.16 seconds =   9.49 MB/sec

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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