Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

[Chris H]

Hello, and thank you for your reply.

Quoting Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr at gmail.com>:

> http://m0n0.ch/wall/ ?

Good candidate. Thanks for mentioning it.

On the up side - it's FreeBSD based. :)
I guess my only disappointments would be that configuration
is done by way of PHP. But of course I could fix that.
Doesn't provide swap space - this seems like this could be
a real liability under heavy load/outside abuse, even with
a decent amount of RAM/Memory.

Thanks again for the reply.

--Chris

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> On 1/29/09, 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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