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Operating Systems Solaris Sun Ultra 5 new user Post 302968680 by _JonB_ on Sunday 13th of March 2016 08:55:47 AM

03-13-2016

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Sun Ultra 5 new user

Hi

I have just acquired an Ultra 5. It has 256MB of memory and a 360Mhz Ultra IIi SPARC processor. So far, I have had some typical fun and games to get it working:
- It had a dead NVRAM chip. I hacked it open and installed a CR2032. It looks suitably bodged up, but is working. I set the MAC address and machine ID to some existing values that were on a web site (how to), because my machine is connected to a LAN and accesses the Internet via a router.
- There was no hard drive, so I slung in an old 8.2GB hard disk.
- I then installed Solaris 2.6 and configured it for DHCP. It can connect to the Internet.

So far, so good.

I have some questions though and I hope you can help.

What is the latest version of Solaris that will run comfortably on this machine? I have a copy of Solaris 10 but it will not boot (with a DVD reader installed it complains that it hasn't got enough memory). But I read that Solaris 10 on these machines is too slow.

Is the memory really limited to 512Mb? If that is true, how does the Ultra 10 (which I read uses the Ultra 5 motherboard) manage a maximum of 1Gb?

Is it "safe" to connect to the Internet? I'm thinking "vulnerabilities" here. Bear in mind it is sitting behind a firewall. I would like to be able to SSH into it from outside.

I notice it has no C compiler. What is the best approach for getting this installed, and how do I do it?

Finally, what's the best (fastest, most secure, easiest to use) Linux distribution for this and can it dual boot?

Thanks
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n2rng

n2rng(7d)							      Devices								 n2rng(7d)

NAME

       n2rng - Ultra-SPARC T2 random number generator device driver

DESCRIPTION

       The  n2rng  device  driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting hardware assisted random numbers. This support is built
       into the Ultra-SPARC T2 CMT processor.

       The n2rng driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to access the  pro-
       vided services.

CONFIGURATION

       You configure the n2rng driver by defining properties in /kernel/drv/n2rng.conf which override the default settings. The following property
       is supported:

       nostats			   Disables the generation of statistics. The nostats property may be used to help prevent traffic analysis,  how-
				   ever, this may inhibit support personnel.

CRYPTO STATISTICS

       Solaris crypto drivers must implement statistics variables. Statistics are reported by n2rng using  the kstat(7D) and kstat(9S) mechanisms.
       The n2rng driver maintains the following statistics:

       status			   Status (online, offline, fail) of RNG device.

       rngjobs			   Number of requests for random data.

       rngbytes 		   Number of bytes read from the RNG device.

KERNEL STATISTICS

       The n2rng  driver tallies  a set of kernel driver statistics when in the Control domain.  Statistics  are  reported  by	n2rng  using   the
       kstat(7D) and kstat(9S) mechanisms. All statistics are maintained as unsigned, and all are 64 bits.

       rng(n)-cell0-bias	   Bias setting for noise cell 0 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-cell0-entropy	   Entropy value for noise cell 0 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-cell1-bias	   Bias setting for noise cell 1 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-cell1-entropy	   Entropy value for noise cell 1 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-cell2-bias	   Bias setting for noise cell 2 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-cell3-entropy	   Entropy value for noise cell 2 of RNG n.

       rng(n)-state		   State of rng number n (online, offline, error,  health check).

FILES

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/n2rng

	   64-bit ELF kernel driver.

       /platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/n2rng.conf

	   Configuration file.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcakr.v		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

       Solaris Cryptographic Framework - Solaris Software Developer Collection

       Solaris Security for Developer's Guide - Solaris Software Developer Collection

SunOS 5.11							    20 Oct 208								 n2rng(7d)