soekris ftw

2 days ago i got my own little soekris, a nice and cosey little "5501-60". its meant to replace the currently running netgear router/wlan_ap soonish for a good reason: a real fbsd instead of an embedded whatever_is_on_that_box. this morning i got it running, it still needs some more tuning but at least it boots and allows me to ssh it. i ll post some pics later. so, for now, soekris for the win :)

update

the little beast is up and running as you can see:



i've stripped down a normal fbsd install down to 21mb with the help of these nice guys .. but what to do with the rest of the 256mb model? :) i've also used freebsd-update to fetch latest binary updates so the soekris is pretty much up to date. i still dont understand why fbsd is not deploying the altq-module with the default kernel ...

well, it works and tomorrow i ll take over the world :)