Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... Message-ID: <199804241517.IAA19137@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) >From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> >On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> personally, I always thought it would be kool to setup a version of >> FreeBSD that pretty much removed the vfs system, and most other parts >> that have to support userland apps... >I like this idea! This would make for really minimal FreeBSD-based >router/switch, which wouldn't have the bloat of FS related things. >It would have to have some userland, though, in order to manage the >configuration, routing protocols and SNMP requests. This is rather similar to what Morning Star did (before Ascend bought 'em) on their routers -- ported the necessary parts of Net/2 to a 68302, using flash for a filesystem. Ran gated if you wanted to do OSPF; was able to set up the backup task on one of the fileservers to ftp to the router & do an "mget" on everything just before the nightly backups, so we had the router config backed up.... And no goofy new idiosyncratic command language to learn -- just normal UNIX commands (basically). I liked it... (in case that wasn't obvious).... :-) david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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