Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

[Chris H]

Hello, and thank you for your reply.

While it's not /exactly/ what I was looking for - it's close. :)
The "filtering" capability is my biggest gripe on the Cisco
*DSL products. They're just not as /capable/ as is offered in
FBSD. DNS is another plus (pfDNS). But I don't think I'd be
modify pfDNS to accomodate BIND, or unbound. Although tinydns
might be able to fit the bill. Oh well, it's close - thanks
for the pointer. :)

--Chris

Quoting Lawrence Farr <freebsd-stable at epcdirect.co.uk>:

> Have a look at pfsense, don't think it's what you want tho.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris H
>> Sent: 29 January 2009 09:51
>> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out
>> a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over
>> a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the
>> router/modem).
>> So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a
>> box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it
>> be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike
>> one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched
>> the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing
>> that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it
>> is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can
>> tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further.
>> Maybe someones already tried it?
>>
>> Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
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