Recent content by efahl

Be aware that the vendors often play games with the "shipped" date to keep AE off their back, and they might not actually ship for a few more weeks. I'm not sure if CWWK falls into this category, but there are documented cases of Topton (and Hunsn?) playing these games.

Grab https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.2/targets/x86/64/openwrt-23.05.2-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined-efi.img.gz Make a boot USB (I think I used an Ubuntu one I had laying around), copy img.gz to the drive. Gunzip it to a raw .img file. Boot your n305 with the USB and just dd it to...

Do you have dmidecode on the router? This should work on both BSD and Linux-based routers: $ dmidecode -s bios-version JK4LV105

Yeah, that's fine. If it sits that high at idle, then you may need to do something, but for full load that's actually pretty good. For comparison, my big workstation (16-core, water cooled) will hit 85-90 C when I load it up with a 2-million-line compile ("make -j 32"), but drops back to 35-45...

Yeah, definitely looks like a hardware issue. Mine shows all four, just like that first screenshot: $ lspci ... 01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 125c (rev 04) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller...

I've been curious for a while, have any of you measured the power delta between with-fan and no-fan? I.e., how many additional watts does the fan draw?

I also have that model, it idles at about 40C and hits 50 when I push traffic through it. I'm running OpenWrt, so the load is much lower than with a VM host and all that entails. I did rework the cooling solution by disassembling it, removing 0.4mm from each mounting post after measuring...

My back-of-the-napkin math came to the same conclusion. I looked up the symbology on the PSU supplied with mine, and it is in the 87% efficiency class. Assuming that this isn't a lie (no reason to doubt it, the PSU feels cool/ambient temp all the time), then improving efficiency would cost a...

I just used my Ventoy USB, already had an Ubuntu bootable (or maybe Fedora? Mint? got a bunch o' distros it) to it, copied the OpenWrt img to it, booted the N5105 from the USB, dd the img to /dev/sda and rebooted. I don't think it took even 10 minutes to get OpenWrt booting on the device.

I have had mine on the powermeter for about 6 weeks now, and its average over that time is 9.1 W (that's with two NICs in use and very low traffic). I have done various experiments, say running iperf3 via loopback (so two instances talking to each other) and CPU goes way up, but power hits...

Yeah, I prefer OpenWrt, too. Much faster than pfSense/OPNsense for everything I do. My main router is an APU2 (AMD Jaguar x86) running the release version of OpenWrt with SQM (cake), secure+private DNS, NTP, server, a couple dozen firewall rules and whole-house ad blocking; the CPU never...

Well, I just ordered one of those model-C versions a few hours ago. My application is bare metal router, so minimal CPU torture, but I got that one because I'm curious how the thermals compare to the beefier cousins. If you can wait a week (ha ha, more like a month!) until I get mine, I'll...