From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 7: 6:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web1204.mail.yahoo.com (web1204.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9927C37B4D7 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16140 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Nov 2000 15:06:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20001121150657.16139.qmail@web1204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.92.198.79] by web1204.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:06:57 PST Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:06:57 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Subject: Diskless Router - is it possible To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All, I want to build a high performance IP router using FreeBSD and Zebra (maybe gated as a backup if I hit trouble with Zebra). One criterion for this design is to avoid having to use a hard drive (reduce power, make it easier to harden the hardware). So, has anyone any experiance of diskless FreeBSD, or maybe using a small ammount of FLASH for the boot up and config and then using a RAM drive from then on, and booting most stuff off a network. Clearly there are a few ideas here. Has anyone any experience of pushing FreeBSD really very hard indead when routing? This could be a really cool project if ti happens :-) AJ Alander J. Turner __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message