Joao Barros

On my previous post about moving my blog I said I would talk more about the FreeBSD box.

It’s one of 3 machines I have running FreeBSD, the only one running 6.2 RELEASE, the other two are running CURRENT.
This machine is only currently hosting this blog but will soon replace my Linksys WRT54GL as a router.
Because of heat, power and space savings I’ve been using the Linksys WRT54GL as a router and switch. It was a bad decision for two reasons:
I bought a Mac which has a Gigabit interface as well as my storage machine. I bought a SMC SMCGS8 8 port Gigabit Switch to remedy that.
The other problem is that the WRT54GL can’t handle lots of traffic on my 11~12 mbit downstream ADSL because the router is the PPPoE client, not the modem.

I still wanted a low power, low noise but more powerfull machine and happened to get just that from a friend: it’s a 800MHz Via C3 Ezra with 256MB RAM and a 10GB Seagate. The cpu is fanless, only the low wattage power supply has a fan that is most quiet.
It has a RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX builtin and I added an Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet.

Here’s the dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Thu Apr 26 17:40:53 UTC 2007
root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: VIA C3 Ezra (797.97-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8
Features=0x803035
real memory = 268369920 (255 MB)
avail memory = 253091840 (241 MB)
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter “ACPI-safe” frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0×4008-0×400b on acpi0
cpu0: on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: on cpu0
acpi_button0: on acpi0
pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff,0×4000-0×407f,0×4080-0×40ff,0×5000-0×500f,0×6000-0×607f on acpi0
pci0: on pcib0
agp0: mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: on pcib1
isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: on isab0
atapci0: port 0×1f0-0×1f7,0×3f6,0×170-0×177,0×376,0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: on atapci0
ata1: on atapci0
uhci0: port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 5 at device 7.2 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 5 at device 7.3 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: at device 7.4 (no driver attached)
fxp0: port 0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xe6931000-0xe6931fff,0xe6900000-0xe691ffff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0
miibus0: on fxp0
inphy0: on miibus0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:02:b3:xx:xx:xx
rl0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe6930000-0xe69300ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
miibus1: on rl0
rlphy0: on miibus1
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:30:00:xx:xx:xx
pci0: at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: at device 13.0 (no driver attached)
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0×3f8-0×3ff irq 4 flags 0×10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
atkbdc0: port 0×60,0×64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcbfff on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: at flags 0×100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: at port 0×3c0-0×3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
ukbd0: vendor 0×0430 product 0×0005, rev 1.00/1.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1
kbd2 at ukbd0
Timecounter “TSC” frequency 797969267 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 9768MB at ata0-master UDMA100