Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:56:39 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep> Message-ID: <20110610165639.GA38479@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1106100829490.19381@nber7.nber.org> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <15630_1307624948_4DF0C5F4_15630_82_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BF89C4A2@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <BANLkTinPrEJ4LfNh8pE7%2BR3Akxj2F4Lpxw@mail.gmail.com> <20110609184829.GC33714@guilt.hydra> <A02E8905D5CFC76B890165F3@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20110609222807.GA34570@guilt.hydra> <C412077F-E713-400F-B02D-DDFD1DDB3723@mac.com> <20110610075943.497793ee@scorpio> <alpine.LFD.2.00.1106100829490.19381@nber7.nber.org>
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--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:34:06AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >=20 > I wouldn't think the OP was interested in saving money, there are > other reasons for building your own switch. For example, there is > a famous article "Tricks you can do if your firewall is also > a bridge": >=20 > http://www.usenix.org/events/neta99/full_papers/limoncelli/limoncelli_h= tml/ I'll read that. Sounds interesting. To be perfectly clear, the reason I'm looking into this is that I tend to like to understand how things work, and to know how to build things I need (most of the reason I got into programming in the first place). Toward that end, I've decided to look into how one would build a switch, and discovered that -- for the most part -- it seems one *wouldn't* build a switch, so I decided to ask here since the subject of switches came up. Obviously, a switch needs some kind of software running on it; it seems reasonable to me that FreeBSD should be able to serve as the necessary software, if only I can figure out how to build a switch from commodity parts without completely breaking the bank. In addition to that, it would be kinda nice to have a switch whose internals I understand so that port-by-port failure of a switch will not occur as a mysterious process I don't quite grasp, as so often occurs with dedicated switches. The fact any switches built after the turn of the century seem to start dying within three years seems like a big problem (I have one 10/100 Linksys switch from before the turn of the century that still works great), after all. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3yTMcACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVPvgCfdeaeQYJ83Gw8N28+LhMuIoOD NVcAn0hpM6lcD/SOZ4Mbnj9s6WfIojQo =Dwnt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK--
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