From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 13:18:06 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 D346F10656D1 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:18:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A95A8FC36 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:18:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.grant@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f40so4612185fka.11 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:18:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F/RHyzm1BIAY678s7WcE2KPqylLxtgH+qz7KTpg1VS0=; b=qZnP+jnu8kI7owhDyuj6k4M4Wnt6MNo8j6DuGvMY7SmH34awy+WUVEHIxtuOp8/hyz btGEVVYgHmRfxayahAvRC+a4Tf6QxrjsQ9h+AMptjenpO42udJIgoWydzetiv/cvLTKa /3LEPVPgajTF7Dm0CSPhXvnt5IkofkGpTQ6sQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=GzUFC/e3EhgyTl5gsuj3aAwtM3/1zuphnZSRQEG9d/7FqU7V/SSPXvSX4ODzn+PTgm 5BW4e8LBMyRclqUtndG2IqstoZLuAUBxbASPKdOQDUBDiKCUZP7Zf/So1gnvmXZbM7/M /OEks20yOXqhF4CG9qI9uehlfFZCVjogEVtJM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: michael.grant@gmail.com Received: by 10.180.241.8 with SMTP id o8mr14233bkh.102.1233233681696; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:54:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> References: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:54:41 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: db154dae2bb0aa0d Message-ID: <62b856460901290454i3ebddbfdhb6173bb2ba6d68f6@mail.gmail.com> From: Michael Grant To: Chris H Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 13:18:11 -0000 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 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" > >