Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

[Chris Peterson]

Pfsense sounds like exactly what you're looking for. It's a stripped  
down freeBSD with a fancy web interface (well, not too fancy, it's  
been incredibly stable for me). I've deployed it a couple times in  
pseudo production environments and it's been holding up well for the  
last 1.5years+.

You can also check out http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=60_84&products_id=492 
  for a nice PIX-sized chasis for pfsense if you need a small box.

On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Chris H wrote:

> Hello, and thank you for your reply.
>
> Quoting Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3 at grant.org>:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:
>>> 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. :)
>>
>> You can run iptables on openwrt.
>
> Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of pf(4). I think it's
> more efficient - especially combined with all the network tuning that
> has been done recently by Robert Watson, John Baldwin, Mohan  
> Srinivasan,
> Peter Wemm, and others. Another reason I'm so inclined to be FBSD  
> centric
> on this. :)
>
>> You can compile most anything for
>> it, you're only limited by it's memory and cpu.  I'm not familiar  
>> with
>> pfDNS.  But if it runs on freebsd, it probably can be made to run on
>> openwrt as well.
>
> Indeed, it's running a FreeBSD base. But like you said; CPU, and  
> Memory
> are the only boundries here. Will need to do more research to compare
> limits against a /desired/ install base.
>
> Thanks again for the reply.
>
> --Chris
>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>
>
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