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folding on a smoothwall?

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JustAGuy

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Alright, I know that most people run really old systems for smoothwalls but I thought I would ask it anyway (I run a 400Mhz PII). Do you think I can SCP the FAH Linux client into the smoothwall and run it on the smoothwall? Will I have to open any ports? Will work units be able to get in and out?

- JustAGuy
 
I run folding on my IPCop firewall, which, I think, is based off of smoothwall, and it works fine, no need to do anything with ports.

Oldbenwa
 
Hummm.... I'll have to figure out how to do the same to my m0n0wall box "sometime." Problem is I'm a total n00b @ *nix.
 
Bait-Fish said:
Hummm.... I'll have to figure out how to do the same to my m0n0wall box "sometime." Problem is I'm a total n00b @ *nix.
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Post on the Linux forum and ask for help. Someone there will be able to help you.
 
Regarding FAH on IPcop I've had some bad experiences with it, ussually it's because I don't get howto make the FAH not request 100% from CPU under Linux.

Anyways I've tried on a PII-300MHz and a K6-2 550MHz both with 128MB RAM.

Both systems failed to respond to out side stimula from network or directly from keyboard after FAH had 15m alone with the machine.

When I managed to get in console, the top and console would crash on me so I would be logged out, and machines behind wouldnt be able to get new WU because the Ipcops didn't react on anything :( (not even ping, SSH would crash or premature closing connection)

Anyways - running it on a slow machine like that might not give the results your dreaming about ;) it will take app. 20+ days on full load for 66points.

Anyways just letting you know my experiences. Generally it appears that machines slower than 700MHz seems to lose contact with the outside world when FAH is running.
Never had the problem on any machine that's faster. (I have tried Ipcop and Vector Linux on both these machines, same behavior on both distros)

Anyways trial and error are your friend ;)

-E

 
EinsteiN said:
Regarding FAH on IPcop I've had some bad experiences with it, ussually it's because I don't get howto make the FAH not request 100% from CPU under Linux.

Anyways I've tried on a PII-300MHz and a K6-2 550MHz both with 128MB RAM.

Both systems failed to respond to out side stimula from network or directly from keyboard after FAH had 15m alone with the machine.

When I managed to get in console, the top and console would crash on me so I would be logged out, and machines behind wouldnt be able to get new WU because the Ipcops didn't react on anything :( (not even ping, SSH would crash or premature closing connection)

Anyways - running it on a slow machine like that might not give the results your dreaming about ;) it will take app. 20+ days on full load for 66points.

Anyways just letting you know my experiences. Generally it appears that machines slower than 700MHz seems to lose contact with the outside world when FAH is running.
Never had the problem on any machine that's faster. (I have tried Ipcop and Vector Linux on both these machines, same behavior on both distros)

Anyways trial and error are your friend ;)

-E

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My IPCop is on a Celeron 466 with 128mb RAM, and it's been folding nonstop @100% for over a year, except when I was upgrading to IPCop 1.4.2. Never had a problem.

Guess I must be special? :p

Oldbenwa

 
Oldbenwa said:
My IPCop is on a Celeron 466 with 128mb RAM, and it's been folding nonstop @100% for over a year, except when I was upgrading to IPCop 1.4.2. Never had a problem.

Guess I must be special? :p

Oldbenwa

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Did you ride that special school bus as a kid too?
 
unhappy_mage said:
Post on the Linux forum and ask for help. Someone there will be able to help you.
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Just about to do that now. Hehe, bangin' my head on the KB just trying to mount the m0n0wall image so I can get into it :eek:
 
I tried it last night and couldn't get it to work (folding on a smoothwall). I think that others can though. My problem was that I was getting a client core communications error before any processing was done. I checked the stanford folding forums and this seemed to happen to another guy too who was trying to fold on a smoothie, but there was no solution to the problem. I tried linux client version 5.02 and 4 and got the same error. From what the other guy had gathered, the problem only happend on core 65 (tinker). I also heard that there are errors with the linux client and they are only running tinkers right now. Although, I did forget to check the date on the post I was reading so maybe this was an old issue. Anyway, other people have gotten it working. Its really a straight-forward process if you've ever used linux at all. Just SCP the file over to the smoothwall, SSH in, config the client, then most people auto-start the linux client by adding a cron job. Helpful resources are the stanford folding forums and the smoothwall forums.

Smoothwall forums
Stanford Folding Forums

Enjoy and good luck! Post here if you get it done successfully or solve the problem I had.

- JustAGuy
 
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