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Silver Peak (Aruba) Unity Edgeconnect EC-XS (FWA-ASP1012) SD-WAN appliance

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Silver Peak (Aruba) Unity Edgeconnect EC-XS (FWA-ASP1012) SD-WAN appliance - Atom C3558 appliance with 16GB of RAM

Welcome to the Silver Peak Unity Edgeconnect EC-XS (FWA-ASP1012)!

Interesting little device with decent specs for a router:

OEM is Advantech. Motherboard model # is NAMB-SP1012MB. The FWA-ASP1012 is a OEM network appliance offered by Advantech, however, the "off the shelf" version differs slightly from this version customized for Silver Peak, chiefly the LAN ports are configured differently.

Confusingly, Silver Peak used to sell an older version of this EC-XS appliance based on a...
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Hardware information

Code:
lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series System Agent [8086:1980] (rev 11)
00:04.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series Error Registers [8086:19a1] (rev 11)
00:05.0 Generic system peripheral [0807]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series Root Complex Event Collector [8086:19a2] (rev 11)
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor C3000 Series Integrated QAT Root Port [8086:19a3] (rev 11)...
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victhor393 updated Silver Peak (Aruba) Unity Edgeconnect EC-XS (FWA-ASP1012) SD-WAN appliance with a new update entry:

SR-IOV seems to work with the X553

Dmesg output after activating a few VFs...
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[  202.228536] ixgbe 0000:06:00.0 eth2: SR-IOV enabled with 3 VFs
[  202.388943] ixgbe 0000:06:00.0: Multiqueue Enabled: Rx Queue count = 4, Tx Queue count = 4 XDP Queue count = 0
[  202.494754] pci 0000:06:10.0: [8086:15c5] type 00 class 0x020000
[  202.495087] pci 0000:06:10.0: Adding to iommu group 23
[  202.495662] pci 0000:06:10.2: [8086:15c5] type 00 class 0x020000
[  202.495940] pci 0000:06:10.2: Adding to iommu group 24
[  202.496938]...
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victhor393 updated Silver Peak (Aruba) Unity Edgeconnect EC-XS (FWA-ASP1012) SD-WAN appliance with a new update entry:

How to get the ACPI watchdog working alongside NCT7904 hardware monitor

When loading the NCT7904 driver on Proxmox VE 8.4.1, the driver for the ACPI watchdog may not load, causing the system to reboot if the watchdog is enabled in the UEFI setup.
The NCT7904 driver supports the watchdog feature present in the chip, however, it isn't used in this machine. It does prevent Proxmox from loading the ACPI watchdog driver, for some reason.
To solve this problem (along with adding the appropriate driver wdat_wdt to /etc/modules and...
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Hmmm...it's an interesting little network appliance, and for the price demanded stateside (I am seeing about 40-50 USD each on evilBay) it's a bargain.

I guess if you have a few desktop DDR4 DIMMs and SATA M2 drives sitting around doing nothing, this will be a nice router, as it's like a more efficient HP t730 thin client with a quad-port 1GbE card installed.

A good question to ask is whether the unit can accept 32GB DDR4 desktop DIMMs or not (since that will allow it to go to 64GB max, rather than the rather expensive and rare 2x16GB DDR3 SODIMMs of the t730). Given that it's Goldmont core based (so it's older than the Goldmont-Plus/Gemini Lake J4125/5005 found on the Wyse 5070 thin clients), don't expect it to be a speed demon.
 
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The power plug is 5mmx2.5mm. I bought one without PSU included. Tip adapters like those from the universal power supplies seem to be the only readily available solution. Are there any other PSU with the right tip available on eBay?
 

victhor393

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My mistake, I had taken a picture of the power supply, but forgot to upload it. It is a Delta ADP-60KD B. 5.5x2.5mm jack. Since it came packaged in the same sealed bag, I presume it is the OEM power supply...

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ru me

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Thank you for the follow up. There may be variations with different barrel sockets. Mine is unfortunately one with the very uncommon 5mm OD.
 

victhor393

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No, you are correct. Mine is also 5mm. I took the Delta brochure at face value and didn't actually measure the jack.