NOkIA ip330 works great

bweyr

The console does not appear to be working on the IP330 we got. We can tell that it is access the hdd though. Any ideas on setting up pfsense under these circumstances?

thanks,
Jim

No sorry. But I still think you should check the cable. most foundry switches i've seen use a straight-through serial not a null modem serial.

hoba

You could try to edit the config.xml to fit the nokias configuration and boot it up with that. This way you can access it by the webgui and ssh and leave the serial console broken. Maybe someone of the fellow nokia330 users here can provide a factory default config with correctly assigned interfaces and turned on ssh with all other settings at default values for you and other nokia users. Can anybody help with that?

bweyr

HI
I can try that. I will test it out first. If it works OK I will post the config file

jzsjr

Hey,

You were right. I dug up a cable that came with one of our HP Procurves and it works. Right now our problem is the drive boots up and can not mount the root. We are going to try some things to figure this out. Have not been able to mount it manually so far.

thanks,
Jim

bweyr

@jzsjr:

Hey,

You were right. I dug up a cable that came with one of our HP Procurves and it works. Right now our problem is the drive boots up and can not mount the root. We are going to try some things to figure this out. Have not been able to mount it manually so far.

thanks,
Jim

Hi Jim
Glad you got it going.:)

jzsjr

Got it going and it auto assigned mac addresses to the nics. Very nice touch from the pfsense team.

thanks,
Jim

jzsjr

How do you like our rebranded IP330?

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hoba

Very nice! I like it :)

jzsjr

Bweyr,

Have you noticed that the halt command does not power the IP330 down? I can hear the hdd click like it is parking the head but the unit will not power off. Is this a limitation on the Nokia hardware?

thanks,
Jim

hoba

I don't know if the nokia has a similiar setting like the nexcom, but I had to make a special setting at the nexcom to make reboots and powerdowns available. I documented what is needed here: http://www.mail-archive.com/support@pfsense.com/msg03811.html
Also try disabling ACPI and check the Bios for powermanagementspecific settings.

jzsjr

Not really sure how to enter bios via console cable if it is even possible. Another question, Does the auto mac address assigner happen every time the machine is booted up? Can I go ahead and manually assign the fake mac addresses to the nics to it does not have to do this?

thanks,
Jim

jzsjr

I've been reading on how to get into the bios of the ip330 and I guess we still do not have a real null cable modem. Amazing that we do not have this. After the AT comes up we do not see anything from the machine until the freebsd starts to boot up. I have ordered some null cables so we'll just have to wait till they come in.

thanks,
Jim

hoba

Try teraterm http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
I use this to enter WRAP, Nexcom and other BIOSes. It has a break-function in the Dropdownmenu Control>Send break or just use ALT+B alternativly. Sometimes this works where other terminal emulations don't work. Send the break before the machine actually starts to boot.

jzsjr

Update. The cable we found to access the nokia IP330 was not a true null modem cable. It allowed us to see when the freebsd fired up but nothing of the bios initial boot. Our null modems finally came in on Thursday and we were able to see the entire boot process and enter the bios. There is not much there and no power management. I don't think the power supplies are ATX so there will be no hardware halt (no big deal). I am running our first rebranded nokia ip330 at my house and it seems fine. Andy, a colleague, has order two K6-2 500mhz to replace the current K6-2 266mhz that came with our used ip330s. These seem much better to play around with than the Nortel Contivity 100 boxes we got.

thanks,
Jim

Sifter

Does the IP330 have any special encryption accelleration build into it? For some reason in the back of my mind I thought it did, could be wrong tho.

gluesniffined

@jzsjr:

Got it going and it auto assigned mac addresses to the nics. Very nice touch from the pfsense team.

thanks,
Jim

Am I correct in assuming, based on your post, that I no longer have to manually add the <spoofmac>tag to the xml config file? I have been using an IP330 for a while now and I have always had to add the <spoofmac>tags for each interface or all of my interfaces come up as ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff</spoofmac></spoofmac>

hoba

correct, pfSense will add some fake mac-adresses to interfaces showing non valid macs automagically.

CWHO

Also a note if you are reading this thread and having problems. I did the dig through the old box O cables thing and found one that seemed to work. Mine brought up the POST screen but keep looping through the bios setup again and again. After much frustration I discovered that this is a known problem with some NOKIA and some cable/terminal programs. The dirty solution is just to hot patch the serial after boot…..

KiaN

Having the choice between an unused IP330 and a 1U Pentium 4 @ 2Hz for pfSense, I wonder what would be the best. It would be for a 100Mbits WAN. Could the IP330 handle that easily with pfSense ? I also have an unused Watchguard Firebox II but I wonder if it would work fine, and it seems difficults to setup with pfSense.

sullrich

Go with the 2ghz box. The IP330s are a glorified older pc maxing out at 500mhz IIRC.