Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:23:43 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Gerard van Essen <gvanessen@gmail.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] BSD Router Project (bsdrp) Message-ID: <200907061523.JAA28605@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <a37628830907052240p51bcb024p8743092495fda6ce@mail.gmail.co m> References: <a37628830907052240p51bcb024p8743092495fda6ce@mail.gmail.com>
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[Original posting on FreeBSD-announce; discussion re-routed ;-) to FreeBSD-chat so as not to clutter the announcement list.] This looks great. We've been doing something similar, internally, for our own ISP. It's good that bsdrp's primary purpose is not to be a firewall; however good network administration demands that there be provisions for policy routing, traffic shaping, traffic prioritization, and gathering of traffic statistics -- things that are usually implemented via firewall software because it's handy to do so. (These features aren't readily accessible in simple GUI-based end user firewalls like m0n0wall or pfsense, but are all do-able on the ruleset level using IPFW2.) Are there provisions for this? The docs are a bit lean so far, so it is hard to tell. --Brett Glass At 11:40 PM 7/5/2009, Gerard van Essen wrote: >Olivier Cochard-Labbé, founder of FreeNAS, has released the first >alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - >http://bsdrp.net > >bsdrp is an open source, customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated >to offering IP routing services for small ISP's. > >The release 0.1 of BSDRP is a fully working prototype, to be used on >real or virtual machines that boot from ATA device only (not usb). > >This first release includes: > >- Base FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT system (NanoBSD) for i386 >- Customized script (config, upgrade, help, command completion, etc…) >- Quagga ready to use (OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP, RIPng and BGP) > >You may ask, what is the difference between BSDRP and m0n0wall of pfSense. > >The main goal of BSDRP is not firewalling but routing. If you need a >firewall don't use BSDRP: Use m0n0wall or pfSense. >BSDRP is not for a home use, but for compagny use (small ISP's for example). >BSDRP doesn't have a Web GUI: It's to be configured from a CLI only >(like Cisco or Juniper) >pfSense can be used for routing, but Olivier wanted to set up a Cisco >or Juniper like project just for routing. > >Source: www.freebsdnews.net >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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