Routerboard 532

From: Jesse Charbneau (groups_at_thecharbneaus.com)
Date: 06/19/05 

Date: 18 Jun 2005 19:30:46 -0700

Hi All,
  I have been using Soekris board for quite a while now, and have kept
an eye out on other vendors just in case. I recently re-checked
routerboard.com and found that they have a new product out (532) @
http://www.routerboard.com/rb500.html that says its a MIPS based
processor. I have used SGI equipment in the past, and it seemed to run
well enough, but I wanted to get some input regarding getting OpenBSD
to run on one of these as I have not ever used OpenBSD on SGI machines.

I guess my questions boil down to:

1> The docs state that this board can function at 2 - 3x the speed of
a SC1100 based Geode system? Can anyone confirm that? Seems that
Sparcs are usually faster than some of the Intels (or at least where).

2> Would I need to buy an SGI and get OpenBSD running on it in order
to compile the kernel, or will the GENERIC kernel work for this?

3> They have a daughter board available, that would add 6 nics. Any
ideas if this has drivers in current (or 3.7)? I saw a patch for 3.4,
but would like to avoid that if I can.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Jess