I have bought a 4Gb CompactFlash disk to enable web-caching on my Mikrotik. Did search the manual & web, but couldn’t get it running.
Any ideas to configure these CF cards?
RouterBoard 500 ; Running RouterOS 2.9.7
Have not tried on CF but it works with MicroDrive..
It is setup under proxy…
IP → proxy → settings -->general → cache drive… (set to Compact flash)..
I would set the “cache only to disk” to ON.
PS caching on a CF memory card may kill it in short order… CF microdrive may be a better option…
Things that make you go Hmmmm…
Craig
Yes, Craig is correct, correct command:
‘ip proxy set cache-drive=CompactFlash’
to set CF as proxy drive, there are few additional options (format-drive, etc.).
You might want to check and see how many times you can write to a flash drive. I think it is only a few hundren thousand times.
OOPS.. I SEE THIS HAS BEEN ADDRESSED ALREADY..
for thesting purpose i did put 256Mb flash (some no name) in IDE adapter, model CFDISK 1E, put it as single HDD in sistem and using 1st instalation cd of linux boot up sistem and used badblocks..
first
#badblocks -p 256 -wsv /dev/hda
and after that i check it … it was operational
so i try to melt it w/ …
#badblocks -p 1024 -c 1 -wsv /dev/hda
it’s take some time … .. naping and naping …
and it’s operation … … so next time i put more and more
and more… even i try -t random … to have random pattern
and it’s operation …
now this CF is serving one router … and show is going on
when some 4G CF come to my hand i will do some hard testing