This morning I fitted a 4GB microSD card to an RB433AH, formatted it, FTP’d into it and uploaded Dude to it.
As you can see below, the file is sitting on the microSD card.
I can reboot the router until I’m blue in the face, Dude doesn’t install.
So my question is, how do I get Dude to install on the microSD card and run from there?
There isn’t enough space on the router’s inbuilt storage for me to install Dude there. When I upload the file to the router, 55MB of space is taken up and Dude stops during install with a “not enough space” error message.
I’m not sure it’s a good idea to install dude on such a small device.
Tests i’ve done with dude on such a device show that it can crash very easily as soon as you are asking memory hungry tasks like networks discovery.
I advice you to install dude agents on a Windows server.
More MicroSD implementation on RB devices is very slow and unreliable. Many users have problems with it if you watch here in the forum. I tested it and i got the same problems (on RB450G).
As soon as you write on the card, processor rise to 100%.
It does use serial peripheral interface bus (SPI) without DMA. This is a simple protocol not really adapted to Megabyte file tranfers. it has been designed for simple interconnections on embedeed devices, but a Linux router with dude is more than a small embedeed device…
In the opposite, Windows machines have a lot more memory and have IDE or SATA very fast and reliable disk memory access.
