Avalon ASIC batch 2, OpenWRT, VirtualBox, IPv6-Hurricane Electric Tunnel

[ProfMac]

Oh, I think this belongs in custom hardware as much as anywhere else.

I am studying OpenWRT in preparation of the arrival of an Avalon Batch 2 system.

I am using this OpenWRT system.
It is running in a VirtualBox environment. 
It has a static IPv4 upstream to the ISP.
I have a Hurricane Electric 6in4 IPv6 tunnel.
I currently run the Satoshi client on IPv6 only, and from the logs I know that there are a lot of IPv6 nodes out there.

I thought there might be some other people interested, for the same reasons.

My current status is, I can talk to the WAN and the LAN side of the OpenWRT client with both IPv4 & IPv6, but the LAN clients don't see the WAN.  I don't know if this will be a problem with the Avalon ASIC or not, so I want to get this working.  I assume it is a route or firewall issue and I can get it working with another Saturday to throw into it.

[techwtf]

You dont have to use openwrt on the machine for routing / running bitcoind.
it seems you are looking for solo mining or p2pool? personally the solo miner should keep the connections to big known nodes.

I know learning to configure openwrt could be helpful, but it seems xiangfu wont let you install any other packages, so ipv6 on the openwrt of the embedded 703n is not possible unless you'd like to spend time recompiling.

[loshia]

Flash is only 4M not enough:)
You have to be able to make your custom image and change the flash with something bigger 8M/16M that is the only way to go:)

I am struggling for a couple of days now to build custom image with stuff i like. Even though wireless modules are removed about 1M uncompressed space i have no luck:)

I will go with HW mod instead Flash cost is about 3 USD only...

[ProfMac]

You dont have to use openwrt on the machine for routing / running bitcoind.
it seems you are looking for solo mining or p2pool? personally the solo miner should keep the connections to big known nodes.

I know learning to configure openwrt could be helpful, but it seems xiangfu wont let you install any other packages, so ipv6 on the openwrt of the embedded 703n is not possible unless you'd like to spend time recompiling.

I'm just excited / anxious about getting the box, I think I should prepare somehow and can't think of anything else intelligent to do.  I've set almost everything in my SOHO/lab to work with IPv6, so I naturally thought I would do the same with the Avalon.  I GPU mined for a few days on a couple of different pools, that seemed to go ok, though I'll never get close to the payout threshold with GPU.

I've made a couple of PCBs, so I have a tiny bit of skill.  I don't feel called on to do that much customization on the Avalon, as I view it as an appliance, at least until it is paid for.

Still, it bugs me now that I don't have OpenWRT working.  I don't really see how that is OT in a Bitcoin forum, but by all means feel free to go there.

[loshia]

You dont have to use openwrt on the machine for routing / running bitcoind.
it seems you are looking for solo mining or p2pool? personally the solo miner should keep the connections to big known nodes.

I know learning to configure openwrt could be helpful, but it seems xiangfu wont let you install any other packages, so ipv6 on the openwrt of the embedded 703n is not possible unless you'd like to spend time recompiling.

I'm just excited / anxious about getting the box, I think I should prepare somehow and can't think of anything else intelligent to do.  I've set almost everything in my SOHO/lab to work with IPv6, so I naturally thought I would do the same with the Avalon.  I GPU mined for a few days on a couple of different pools, that seemed to go ok, though I'll never get close to the payout threshold with GPU.

I've made a couple of PCBs, so I have a tiny bit of skill.  I don't feel called on to do that much customization on the Avalon, as I view it as an appliance, at least until it is paid for.

Still, it bugs me now that I don't have OpenWRT working.  I don't really see how that is OT in a Bitcoin forum, but by all means feel free to go there.

I need to customize image because:
1. I need 3g modem support as backup for the internet
2. I need openvpn so i could be able to access the unit remotely always
3. I need php so i can be able to view miner.php as i used to
4. I need snmpget, set so i can be able to automate power off on when there is a problem with the unit and it stops hashing for some reason. As stated power off/on is the only way to go for now
5. I need to be able to hack/upgrade cgminer as soon as something new pops up

And i need 8M flash to do it:)

[Luke-Jr]

You dont have to use openwrt on the machine for routing / running bitcoind.
it seems you are looking for solo mining or p2pool? personally the solo miner should keep the connections to big known nodes.

I know learning to configure openwrt could be helpful, but it seems xiangfu wont let you install any other packages, so ipv6 on the openwrt of the embedded 703n is not possible unless you'd like to spend time recompiling.

I'm just excited / anxious about getting the box, I think I should prepare somehow and can't think of anything else intelligent to do.  I've set almost everything in my SOHO/lab to work with IPv6, so I naturally thought I would do the same with the Avalon.  I GPU mined for a few days on a couple of different pools, that seemed to go ok, though I'll never get close to the payout threshold with GPU.

I've made a couple of PCBs, so I have a tiny bit of skill.  I don't feel called on to do that much customization on the Avalon, as I view it as an appliance, at least until it is paid for.

Still, it bugs me now that I don't have OpenWRT working.  I don't really see how that is OT in a Bitcoin forum, but by all means feel free to go there.

I need to customize image because:
1. I need 3g modem support as backup for the internet
2. I need openvpn so i could be able to access the unit remotely always
3. I need php so i can be able to view miner.php as i used to
4. I need snmpget, set so i can be able to automate power off on when there is a problem with the unit and it stops hashing for some reason. As stated power off/on is the only way to go for now
5. I need to be able to hack/upgrade cgminer as soon as something new pops up

And i need 8M flash to do it:)

Yeah... don't think you're fitting all that in 4 MB flash

Might try out BFGMiner's "avalon" branch while you're at it - they you could point it at bitcoind for GBT solo mining

[loshia]

Yeah... don't think you're fitting all that in 4 MB flash

Might try out BFGMiner's "avalon" branch while you're at it - they you could point it at bitcoind for GBT solo mining

I know Luke:)

I do not have avalon yet unfortunately:)

I just try to make my life easier when i have it.
By the way do you have any feedback from someone who has tried it BFGMiner's "avalon" branch. Is it hanging?
What bothers me much that there might be an issue with controller - the place where interface cables from AVALON PCB's are connected and this is the reason why power off/on solves it but not cgminer restart or avalon unit soft reboot.

10X

[Luke-Jr]

By the way do you have any feedback from someone who has tried it BFGMiner's "avalon" branch. Is it hanging?

No, I just merged and pushed it tonight. It's pretty much just a clean merge at this point, so any hardware-related problems are likely identical to the cgminer Avalon.

[cypherdoc]

By the way do you have any feedback from someone who has tried it BFGMiner's "avalon" branch. Is it hanging?

No, I just merged and pushed it tonight. It's pretty much just a clean merge at this point, so any hardware-related problems are likely identical to the cgminer Avalon.

looking forward to trying this out.