From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 24 02:39:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05601 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05594 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:39:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA24501; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: John-Mark Gurney cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... In-Reply-To: <19980424005740.35254@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > personally, I always thought it would be kool to setup a version of > FreeBSD that pretty much removed the vfs system, and most other parts > that have to support userland apps... > > after that, you create a kernel thread or something similar that turns > the box into a switch... then you simply boot the machine up, handle > the forwarding of packets between interfaces... > > this of course means that you could dump the tcp/udp stacks along with > a number of other things... you'd have something better than a straight > ethernet bridge... > > think, FreeBeSwitcheD on a floppy... :) I like this idea! This would make for really minimal FreeBSD-based router/switch, which wouldn't have the bloat of FS related things. It would have to have some userland, though, in order to manage the configuration, routing protocols and SNMP requests. I wonder how Cisco's are doing this, from the operating system's point of view... When you configure the type of routing protocol on a Cisco, it looks very similar to starting a new process (e.g. ospf router), and when you look into memory statistics, it seems that their IOS has a notion of processes... Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message