I recently bought an Cyclades ACS32 console server, and figured that because it runs Linux it should be able to run ladvd. This isn’t as easy as it seems because of the embedded PPC cpu used. I started by building a crosscompiler using crosstool, which succeeded after a few patches. Unfortunately the resulting binary didn’t work. It started ok, but couldn’t find any interfaces. After some headscratching it turns out that the glibc (2.3.2) used by Cyclades has an incomplete getifaddrs implementation (IPv4 only). The quick way to fix this is to use a C-library which does, uClibc seemed like a good choice. So I created another toolchain, GCC and uClibc, using buildroot. The resulting binary again didn’t work…. This time it was because ethtool support is either missing or broken on the Cyclades ACS, which results in ladvd not accepting the “eth0″ interface. After a small fix all is well and ladvd 0.6.1 runs on my ACS32:
Chassis id: 0060.2e01.cdf1
Port id: eth0
Port Description - not advertised
System Name: zem
System Description:
Linux 2.6.22 #1 Tue Sep 30 11:12:38 PDT 2008 ppc