[FreeBSD-Announce] BSD Router Project (bsdrp)

[Brett Glass]

[Original posting on FreeBSD-announce; discussion re-routed ;-) to 
FreeBSD-chat so as not to clutter the announcement list.]

This looks great. We've been doing something similar, internally, 
for our own ISP.

It's good that bsdrp's primary purpose is not to be a firewall; 
however good network administration demands that there be 
provisions for policy routing, traffic shaping, traffic 
prioritization, and gathering of traffic statistics -- things that 
are usually implemented via firewall software because it's handy to 
do so. (These features aren't readily accessible in simple 
GUI-based end user firewalls like m0n0wall or pfsense, but are all 
do-able on the ruleset level using IPFW2.) Are there provisions for 
this? The docs are a bit lean so far, so it is hard to tell.

--Brett Glass

At 11:40 PM 7/5/2009, Gerard van Essen wrote:

>Olivier Cochard-Labbé, founder of FreeNAS, has released the first
>alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project -
>http://bsdrp.net
>
>bsdrp is an open source, customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated
>to offering IP routing services for small ISP's.
>
>The release 0.1 of BSDRP is a fully working prototype, to be used on
>real or virtual machines that boot from ATA device only (not usb).
>
>This first release includes:
>
>- Base FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT system (NanoBSD) for i386
>- Customized script (config, upgrade, help, command completion, etc
)
>- Quagga ready to use (OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP, RIPng and BGP)
>
>You may ask, what is the difference between BSDRP and m0n0wall of pfSense.
>
>The main goal of BSDRP is not firewalling but routing. If you need a
>firewall don't use BSDRP: Use m0n0wall or pfSense.
>BSDRP is not for a home use, but for compagny use (small ISP's for example).
>BSDRP doesn't have a Web GUI: It's to be configured from a CLI only
>(like Cisco or Juniper)
>pfSense can be used for routing, but Olivier wanted to set up a Cisco
>or Juniper like project just for routing.
>
>Source: www.freebsdnews.net
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