Thanks for the effort on this. I'm not much of a tester but my company does have some Gateworks boards that I can use. I can help test if you tell me what you want done.
Richard Davis www.bizsyscon.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Can pfSense be ported to Intel IXP425? Further to the discussion early this month, and in specific reference to: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02110.html and noting the fact that the end of February is upon us. Work proceeds. Some of you may have noticed that the ixp42x support recently got MFC-ed to 6.2, nearly simultaneously we got the ability to boot the kernel out of the on-board flash chip (not the CF socket). pfSense has enough footprint that the CF socket is necessary, but the board does run FreeBSD 6.2 quite nicely now. The current efforts have been in making the requisite parts of the 'ports' collection either cross-compile (its ugly) or compile on a native target (a real Gateworks board) with disk via NFS. While 6.2 runs fine on both the 64MB and 128MB variants of the Gateworks board, compiling things such as Perl or Ruby (requisite for many ports) can consume as much as 160MB of combined ram+swap. And compiling on an ixp42x isn't as fast as you're likely used to if you use an Intel x86-like computer purchased in the last 6-7 years. In any case, the webserver is up and serving PHP pages as of early today (er, Tuesday), so a "beta release" of something very-much pfSense-like (I hesitate to call it 'pfSense' until Scott, Bill and Chris sign-off) should be out quite soon. Jim
