From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 02:36:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3BE16A412; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:36:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from raven.bwct.de (raven.bwct.de [85.159.14.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E39543D70; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:36:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de ([10.1.1.7]) by raven.bwct.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9D2aHSs001625; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:36:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [10.1.1.14]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9D2aAmw090349 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:36:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k9D2aAOX015638; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:36:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.13.4/8.13.3/Submit) id k9D2a9Wn015637; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:36:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:36:09 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Marcos Biscaysaqu Message-ID: <20061013023608.GE488@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <001a01c6ee4e$37745b30$1e1510ac@austin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001a01c6ee4e$37745b30$1e1510ac@austin> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.4-STABLE alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on cicely12.cicely.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:00:05 +0000 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet Switch and MIPS X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:36:22 -0000 On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:31:53AM +1300, Marcos Biscaysaqu wrote: > Hi there. > > We have a very interesting Embebed FreeBSD base system using > Netgraph, BGP, Voip over IP (SER and Asterisk), PF, Remote Desktop Client > (netboot), VLANs, Q-in-Q Vlan, VPN, L2tp, pptp, Xmail, Dhcp server, Wireless > etc.. All the setting and config files are created by a "central management > Platform" (Web Interface and Database) . We have more than 600 of this > devices running different services for 4 years. We would like to release an > open free version of the system and also a commercial one and we would like > to know if you know about some kind of "Ethernet switch" from 8 to 24 ports > able to run Freebsd and also if somebody could give us an opinion or ideas, > we would like to know if this could be an interesting idea to do for the > Freebsd community. Don't know what you mean by "Ethernet switch", but a switch is a switch and not a host. Do you think about doing lan bridging with FreeBSD? That's Ok for a few ports, but with many of them it's better to do in hardware. I've build sn ARM based board with an 820.1q capable switch, which is controlable by FreeBSD, but this is still a switch and a FreeBSD host although they are on a single board. It's a 5 port switch with 1 port to FreeBSD, but it's not a major difference to use switch chips with more ports. And finally you can still use a 08/15 manageable switch and control it from FreeBSD - even if it's in a different place. You really should be more specific what you mean. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de