Having been running pfsense for a week now, i have to say i trule enjoy it, and i have qos that works! I had been using the Linksys RV082 in several of our offices and the only thing i don't like about them is their flexibility and weak QoS. The specs and performance on these boxes are pretty amazing for the price: Intel IXP425 533MHz 32 Meg RAM 16 Meg Flash Dual Wan 8 LAN ports that can supposedly be separated into VLAN's (fake, they still use the same subnet but traffic doesn't pass between them) Too bad the existing firmware doesn't harness the power of the hardware. I've clocked a consistent 27Mbps of 3DES IPsec with these. These linksys boxes are running Linux 2.4 with openswan and iptables i believe.
There is a Firmware project to update the Linksys RV seres to the 2.6 kernel and tweak some other stuff. One is called OpenWRV http://www.phj.hu/wrv54g/ which seems to be focused on the wireless version and the other one is OpenIXP which is tied to this project focusing on the IXP platform. Neither of them seem to have gone anywhere, maybe the members are too busy? I think pfSense would be much better than modifying the crappy firmware that linksys provides anyways. I am under the impression that Free BSD is not only lighter, but more efficient with networking (network stack) than Linux is so i was wondering if it would be possible to port to this platform. there's more info on its little brother here: http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34276 That thread is about the RV042 [EMAIL PROTECTED], 32Meg ram but it's interesting that these boxes have 2 serial ports, mini pci and even HDD capability built in. I cannot, for the life of me find this but there's a project going on now to hack and rewrite the existing firmware but why start with crap if you could port over something like pfSense, even it has some features stripped out. What do you guys think? Is it feasible/possible? I would really like to have an appliance using this platform and pfSense. It's got way more power than the Soekris/wrap the only thing i'm concerned about is the 32meg of ram, but i think it would be possible. I think the best way to actually make the VLANs function on this device (i don't think it would support 802.1q) would be to assign subnet interfaces to vlans (up to 8) and then assign vlan's to lan ports. All traffic on ports with the same vlan assigned is bridged. That's the way routing assignments work on the Adtran Netvanta 1224R's i work with and it's very intuitive. = Buy Your Aromatic Vaporizer For Less All major brands in stock. Find Volcano, Vapir, VaporWarez, and Aromed vaporizers at great prices. Same-day free shipping and cool freebies with all orders. 75,000 positive feedbacks. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=5a645f954582396c441f2a7301d3ac8a
