Designing and testing PFP9W

The purpose of this collection of servers is to provide a test bed for various ideas. Part of it is to make available the hardware I've accumulated for people to make and test kernels and drivers. Another is for testing network based programs from a 9front system running on bare metal with a basic internet connection.

What is needed are people interested in writing kernels, drivers, networked programs, and the like to get accounts, log in and poke around the local grid. Then give feedback on how they think the storage and network should be laid out make the work as smooth as possible.

Things to consider;

• The physical layout of the network

• The computers to use and their function

• How to divide up the storage

• Handle access to ethernet and serial ports

• Setting up temporary file servers for PXE/netboot

Available hardware

3x Optiplex (i5 6000 series)

3x Optiplex (i5 4000 series)

Various multi-port intel Ethernet cards

Various gigbit Ethernet switches

Cisco SG300-G (managed switch)

TPLink R600VPN (router)

Pine64 A64-LTS (Allwinner A64)

Pine64 RockPro64 (Rockchip rk3399)

Odroid M1 (Rockchip 3568)

Libre Le Potato (Amlogic s905x)

Mangopi MQpro (Allwinner D1)

Ingenic dev board (Ingenic X2000)

Wifi routers with the following SoC's {

mt7620

mt7628

mt7688 (dev board w/ io pins)

mt7621 (dev board w/ mpcie and io pins)

qca9531 (dev board w/ mpcie)

qca9563 (ZTE MF279 w/ cell radio)

qca9558

}

Octeon II DPU (cn6640 snic10e-g)

Octeon III DPU (cn7322 255svpn-g)

C4000GX (Lantiq/Intel Mips Interaptiv)

Wifi adapters{

RTL8188CE

Intel 7268HMW

Atheros AR 5B95

Atheros AR 5B22

Broadcom BCM943228HMB

}

Ooma Telo (NXP LS1024A)

Cisco SPA122 (DSP 8187)