Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:54:30 +0500 From: "Mr.Router" <imrouter@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: kirc.gover@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 232, Issue 5 Message-ID: <46E2FDF6.3060402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070907120008.65F4616A50F@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20070907120008.65F4616A50F@hub.freebsd.org>
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Re: OS choice (Erich Dollansky) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:05:55 +1000 (EST) > From: Kirc Gover <kirc.gover@yahoo.com.au> > Subject: OS choice > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <167927.32637.qm@web44804.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would like to solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable OS. The router is expected to withstand forwarding of sustained traffic from 10Mbps to 1Gbps and maybe more than that. Are there any known limitations of FreeBSD in terms of architecture and performance? Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware without any specific or major refinements in its code? I'm very much concerned with its capability in forwarding heavy sustained traffic. Packet loss should be at minimum and critical userland processes should working normally even under heavy load. Are there any known specific limitations of FreeBSD? I have browsed through the archives and found a lot of hangups, deadlocks and freeze issues. What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box enough, or dual core or ASIC > based platforms? I'm aware that there are so many FreeBSD based routers and network based devices in the market. Is this a way to go over realtime and embedded OS such as VxWorks and others (mostly commercial) without putting the licensing cost in picture? I really appreciate any help, suggestions and recommendations. More power to FreeBSD! > > Thanks > Kirc > > > --------------------------------- > Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:56:45 -0700 > From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: Progress for 7.0 - the "what's cooking" page > To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <46E04D6D.9090501@freebsd.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > If memory serves me right, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Andrew Gallatin wrote: >>> The TSO/LRO section needs a little updating. >>> >>> According to find sys/dev | xargs grep -l IFCAP_TSO, TSO is present in >>> at least: bce, cxgb, em, ixgbe, msk, mxge, nfe, nxge, re >>> >>> Based on grepping for IFCAP_LRO, LRO is currently available only in mxge. >> Ok, I've updated this information, and most of the others given in this >> thread. >> >> Does anyone know what's going on with features like sun4v architecture >> and superpages? > > (Replying to a random message in this thread.) > > As you work on this, consider submitting changes to the release notes in > case those of us who work on them have forgotten something. The > audience and purpose of the release notes is a little different from > your Web page, but some appropriate of overlap is a Good Thing (TM). > > Thanks! > > Bruce. > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 249 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20070906/27bdf224/signature-0001.pgp > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:37:49 +0200 > From: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> > Subject: Re: OS choice > To: Kirc Gover <kirc.gover@yahoo.com.au> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <DFD8308B-2A36-47C9-9332-2E2CA2FCD1B1@jump-ing.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > Am 06.09.2007 um 19:05 schrieb Kirc Gover: > >> Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware >> without any specific or major refinements in its code? > > In /usr/src/tools/tools/tinybsd you'll find a convenient script to > build one-readonly-partition embedded systems. Another piece of work > worth looking for is M0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) > > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:34:28 +0800 > From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> > Subject: Re: OS choice > To: Kirc Gover <kirc.gover@yahoo.com.au> > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <46E0B8B4.3090303@pacific.net.sg> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > FreeBSD should not have anz limits zou will ever reach if zou provide > the right hardware. > > You should also consider the licence. > > FreeBSD doesn't force you to publish any of your own work. > > Erich > > Kirc Gover wrote: >> We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would like to solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable OS. The router is expected to withstand forwarding of sustained traffic from 10Mbps to 1Gbps and maybe more than that. Are there any known limitations of FreeBSD in terms of architecture and performance? Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware without any specific or major refinements in its code? I'm very much concerned with its capability in forwarding heavy sustained traffic. Packet loss should be at minimum and critical userland processes should working normally even under heavy load. Are there any known specific limitations of FreeBSD? I have browsed through the archives and found a lot of hangups, deadlocks and freeze issues. What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box enough, or dual core or ASI C >> based platforms? I'm aware that there are so many FreeBSD based routers and network based devices in the market. Is this a way to go over realtime and embedded OS such as VxWorks and others (mostly commercial) without putting the licensing cost in picture? I really appreciate any help, suggestions and recommendations. More power to FreeBSD! >> >> Thanks >> Kirc >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now. Kric, FreeBSD is most powerful free OS on the planet , as per your requirements the two variants of of FreeBSD are very perfect m0n0wall and pfsence, i personally admire pfsense it works well on my case for routing almost 100MB traffic of my network & i have tested it ob Gigabyte LAN too, though its web interface have few problems but it can be modified easily to make a perfect router / firewall / gateway .both m0n0wall and pfsense works fine with sokeris , but it is obvious depending on your that it can bear load or not , sokeris running Asterisk on Linux works very well fro routing almost 100 IP phones of my office very well. Regards Mr.Router
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