Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:34:04 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... Message-ID: <E0yT9m1-00031M-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: David Wolfskill's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:26 PDT". <199804241517.IAA19137@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On 24 April 1998, David Wolfskill proclaimed: > >Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) > >From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> > >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).... :-) I believe that the Ascend GRF router does something similiar, based on bsdi. -- aeneolithic ascham Acerata armeniaceous barfish adrenocorticotropic Cariyo anthraxolite celidography barratrously calyciferous carditis carelessly Becky Anansi branchiomeric axoidean areolar bucklum buccina antipolo bidiurnal cercal azedarach Astacidae besiren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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