Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:54:41 +0100 From: Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org> To: Chris H <chris#@1command.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible? Message-ID: <62b856460901290454i3ebddbfdhb6173bb2ba6d68f6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> References: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com>
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Check out OpenWRT, this is essentially linux (busybox on a linux kernel I believe) that you can load on a router and it runs on more than a handfull of routers. It's not freebsd. Not sure if the Cisco 837 is supported though, but many other routers are. If not supported, just go out and buy a cheap router that is supported and replace your cisco. Michael Grant On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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