From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 24 08:18:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17968 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:18:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17963 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA06776 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com(207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006772; Fri Apr 24 08:17:26 1998 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA19137 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199804241517.IAA19137@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) >From: Andrzej Bialecki >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... >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. This is rather similar to what Morning Star did (before Ascend bought 'em) on their routers -- ported the necessary parts of Net/2 to a 68302, using flash for a filesystem. Ran gated if you wanted to do OSPF; was able to set up the backup task on one of the fileservers to ftp to the router & do an "mget" on everything just before the nightly backups, so we had the router config backed up.... And no goofy new idiosyncratic command language to learn -- just normal UNIX commands (basically). I liked it... (in case that wasn't obvious).... :-) david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message