From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 25 12:42:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06475 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from myrddin.demon.co.uk (myrddin.demon.co.uk [158.152.54.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06469 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from dom by myrddin.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.80 #1) id 0yT9m1-00031M-00; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:34:05 +0100 To: David Wolfskill cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bridging... In-reply-to: David Wolfskill's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:17:26 PDT". <199804241517.IAA19137@pau-amma.whistle.com> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:34:04 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 April 1998, David Wolfskill proclaimed: > >Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:36:27 +0200 (CEST) > >From: Andrzej Bialecki > >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).... :-) I believe that the Ascend GRF router does something similiar, based on bsdi. -- aeneolithic ascham Acerata armeniaceous barfish adrenocorticotropic Cariyo anthraxolite celidography barratrously calyciferous carditis carelessly Becky Anansi branchiomeric axoidean areolar bucklum buccina antipolo bidiurnal cercal azedarach Astacidae besiren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message