PC Engines Alix 2d13 board

[J65nko]

Last week I ordered a Alix 2d13 bundle and it arrived last Friday. I installed an OpenBSD snapshot through PXE as described in http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE

For the technical specs of this board see http://pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm

After fitting the circuit board in the case, it looks like this (the purpose of the pen is only to give an impression of the size):





A view of the rear with the serial port, the 3 LAN ports, 2x USB and the power connector:

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by J65nko

Last week I ordered a Alix 2d13 bundle...

For low to medium traffic, these are nice boxen for the price -- especially given that they consume so little power.

It would be nice if the processor was a bit faster, more memory (Alix ships with non-upgradable 256MB RAM...) would be nice, & the vr(4) NIC's (Three can be found in the 2d13... ) are only rated at 10/100. It would be nice if they were 10/100/1000 & capable of supporting VLAN's, but they aren't.

However, as posted on OpenBSD's misc@ mailing list last week:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=135726085104469&w=2

They can be configured to be nice little IPSec end-points.

I have a number of these systems for various uses (though not as many as in the picture posted to misc@...). Heck, I may even get another one for something else.

[J65nko]

I just read http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=135813500222353&w=2
It has a patch to allow hardware VLAN tagging for vr(4)

[J65nko]

The dmesg output:

OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC) #15: Fri Jan 11 14:04:04 MST 2013
    todd@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 499 MHz
cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CFLUSH,MMX,MMXX,3DNOW2,3DNOW
real mem  = 267976704 (255MB)
avail mem = 252612608 (240MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 11/05/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd088
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xe0000/0xa800
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "AMD Geode LX" rev 0x33
glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 "AMD Geode LX Crypto" rev 0x00: RNG AES
vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 10, address 00:0d:b9:2a:bf:e0
ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034
vr1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 11, address 00:0d:b9:2a:bf:e1
ukphy1 at vr1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034
vr2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "VIA VT6105M RhineIII" rev 0x96: irq 15, address 00:0d:b9:2a:bf:e2
ukphy2 at vr2 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 3: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0034
glxpcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "AMD CS5536 ISA" rev 0x03: rev 3, 32-bit 3579545Hz timer, watchdog, gpio, i2c
gpio0 at glxpcib0: 32 pins
iic0 at glxpcib0
maxtmp0 at iic0 addr 0x4c: lm86
pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "AMD CS5536 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <TS4GCF133>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3823MB, 7831152 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 4 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12, version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 5 "AMD CS5536 USB" rev 0x02: irq 12
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "AMD EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
isa0 at glxpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 at pcppi0
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1 "AMD OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
nvram: invalid checksum
vscsi0 at root
scsibus0 at vscsi0: 256 targets
softraid0 at root
scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on wd0a (2ef551a1145f72e2.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
clock: unknown CMOS layout