Working on a 'port' of pfSense to the Gateworks ixp42x platform, as
well as a 6 x 10/100 Enet + 2 x miniPCI box I have access to...
(I'm the guy who sold all the xscale developers (save Sam Leffler)
gateworks boards at my cost.)
The Gateworks boards we carry have 64MB ram, 8MB flash and CF
sockets. FreeBSD-current boots on this board, the project is
backporting to 6.2, then cracking the pfSense development environment
across the face hard enough to make it cross-compile. The main issue
with a pure (non-CF) flash
environment is that FreeBSD currently has no provisions for a FFS
(such as jffs2) or the MTD layer found in linux. This, combined
with the need to
squeeze into 16MB (or even 8MB) put "support of a pure flash
environment" last on the list.
(The full 'make buildworld' binary output is 184MB, but this can be
sliced quite a bit.)
Stay tuned, should have something this month. Work has been slowed
some recently by a customer who wants to put linux on their line of
private jets. (Sorry.)
Post getting pfSense running on the Gateworks board, I'm working on a
storage appliance (that currently runs linux) with an Intel Xscale
80219. The idea
is to take the ZFS work already limping in -current and make it work
with a re-worked "freenas" (based on m0n0wall) distribution.
Jim
p.s. Chris, sorry if that was too commercial.
On Feb 2, 2007, at 1:31 PM, ryn jackson wrote:
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.
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