DNS 345 support possible?

[john.wes...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

I'm considering purchasing a NAS, and quite like the look of the 345 - which is a 4 bay enclosure. I was wondering whether anyone had tried to port Alt-F to this platform yet? Or even if it might be possible? A quick look on the D-Link site shows it uses a similar processor, and i would be surprised if they re-invented the wheel for this product.

I am an Open-WRT user on a variety of devices, and that experience has shown me that open source projects are infinitely better than the original manufacturers firmware!

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated,

Thanks

[João Cardoso]

On Monday, December 1, 2014 4:26:32 PM UTC, john.wes...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

I'm considering purchasing a NAS, and quite like the look of the 345 - which is a 4 bay enclosure. I was wondering whether anyone had tried to port Alt-F to this platform yet? Or even if it might be possible?

A port is not easy. Four disk slots, two network interfaces, two fans, OLED display... what else? Alt-F *might* run, but it is definitively not flashable, as I don't have one to play with.

[Dmitri Passaita]

In case you consider purchasing DNS-345 for testing and firmware development I am first in line to donate.

I have used Alt-F on DNS-323 but this hardware was too slow for me so I moved to DNS-345 but hate it's stock firmware.

Please let me know if I could help.

Thank you.

[João Cardoso]

On Thursday, 29 October 2015 01:51:34 UTC, Dmitri Passaita wrote:

In case you consider purchasing DNS-345 for testing and firmware development I am first in line to donate.

I have used Alt-F on DNS-323 but this hardware was too slow for me so I moved to DNS-345 but hate it's stock firmware.

Please let me know if I could help.

It should be possible to port Alt-F to the DNS-345 (https://nas-tweaks.net/tag/dns-345/), but it is a expensive and rare box, the 340L is cheaper, more powerful and easier to port, so I would prefer to spend my time on it.

Thanks

[Dmitri Passaita]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing at this model.

Looks much sharper without fancy screen, decent size cooler, dual USB & Lan.

Good thing I returned my recently 345 back to store and now can start looking for good deals on 340L.

Just a short off topic question: could this be turned in a gateway server?

Sincerely,

Dmitri Passaita

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[João Cardoso]

On Tuesday, 3 November 2015 23:54:05 UTC, Dmitri Passaita wrote:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing at this model.

Looks much sharper without fancy screen, decent size cooler, dual USB & Lan.

Actually three USB ports, the one in front panel is USB-3, and two lan ports.

From the specs it seems to be based on the Marvell Armada 370, identical to the one found in the DNS-327L.

Knowing manufactures, the DNS-340L must be very similar to the DNS-327L, probably with only extra SATA multipliers and the second lan active (the Armada 370 has dual SATA ports and two network interfaces builtin).

If you end up having one you can install 'ffp' on it and then telnet or ssh it. I would then appreciate if you could post the output of some commands, such as cpuinfo, meminfo, dmesg output...

 

Good thing I returned my recently 345 back to store and now can start looking for good deals on 340L.

Just a short off topic question: could this be turned in a gateway server?

Don't know what the D-Link fw does with the second lan port.  The Armada-370 has single core, the Armada-XP is multiple core.

It could be setup in parallel/bonding with the other, duplicating throughput (not many users would use that, as it would require 10Gbps physical network devices), be setup as a redundant/spare of the first port, for high availability systems, or acting as a gateway between two different networks, as you suggests. Everything very exotic for me or the average home user.

 

Sincerely,

Dmitri Passaita