From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 05:04:16 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 E95E8106566C for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3708FC19 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW09.01) with ESMTP id n0V544YC023304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:04:04 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.3] (adsl-99-146-99-45.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [99.146.99.45]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.14.3+UW08.09/8.14.3+UW09.01) with ESMTP id n0V543IC001237 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:04:04 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper To: Chris H In-Reply-To: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <20090129015034.7dxisep21w04gksg@webmail.1command.com> Message-Id: <75C8F622-1EC7-4CD2-972E-DB2233BA7BDC@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:09:00 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.0.356843, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.1.350677, Antispam-Data: 2009.1.31.44928 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='FORGED_FROM_GMAIL 0.1, BODY_SIZE_1400_1499 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL 0, __FRAUD_419_WEBMAIL_FROM 0, __FROM_GMAIL 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HAS_X_PRIORITY 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:04:17 -0000 On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:50 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 Good luck on that. Probably not to be honest because Cisco does a great deal of corporate IP protection on their images, etc. I know because I work for Cisco :). All I can really say (based on my little knowledge) is that it's no doubt a PPC based embedded processor, so if you need to look further, I'd first explore and PPC ports to that specific chipset, and definitely make sure to check with the NetBSD folks and see if anyone has ported to that platform. Cheers, -Garrett