From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 10:28:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2001065686 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (mail.1command.com [75.160.109.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A4B8FC25 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:28:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n0T9oYkm082556 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id n0T9oYbB082555 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from hitme.hitometer.net (hitme.hitometer.net [75.160.109.235]) by webmail.1command.com (H.R. Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:34 -0800 Message-ID: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:34 -0800 From: Chris H To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / UNIX Subject: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:28:53 -0000 Greetings, I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/modem). So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. Maybe someones already tried it? Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. --Chris