Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

[Chris H]

Hello Michael, and thank you for your reply.
Yes, OpenWRT is pretty much was what I was asking about. Being
/exclusively/ FBSD I hadn't run across it - thanks. :)
Of course it doesn't support any Cisco products, but hey, like
you said; I can just choose one that it /does/, or write a driver
myself. I was also looking at Sangoma's (http://www.sangoma.com)
wanpipe (ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/FreeBSD/wanpipe/) as a possible base
point. It already supports BSD and works with nearly all HW.
But now - in an effort to stay on a BSD platform, I'm thinking of
using a combination of nanobsd, and OpenWRT as a framework to build
a FreeBSD based equivalent (or better) version of OpenWRT. I think I'll
fly a page now to announce the project - look for it in a ports
section near you. ;)

Thank you again for the reply.

--Chris

Quoting Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3 at grant.org>:

> Check out OpenWRT, this is essentially linux (busybox on a linux
> kernel I believe) that you can load on a router and it runs on more
> than a handfull of routers.  It's not freebsd.  Not sure if the Cisco
> 837 is supported though, but many other routers are.  If not
> supported, just go out and buy a cheap router that is supported and
> replace your cisco.
>
> Michael Grant
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:
>> 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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