[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send freebsd-hackers mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of freebsd-hackers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. OS choice (Kirc Gover) > 2. Re: Progress for 7.0 - the "what's cooking" page (Bruce A. Mah) > 3. Re: OS choice (Markus Hitter) > 4. Re: OS choice (Erich Dollansky) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:05:55 +1000 (EST) > From: Kirc Gover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: OS choice > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of > an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would like > to solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable OS. > The router is expected to withstand forwarding of sustained traffic from > 10Mbps to 1Gbps and maybe more than that. Are there any known limitations of > FreeBSD in terms of architecture and performance? Can I just take out a > FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware without any specific or major > refinements in its code? I'm very much concerned with its capability in > forwarding heavy sustained traffic. Packet loss should be at minimum and > critical userland processes should working normally even under heavy load. > Are there any known specific limitations of FreeBSD? I have browsed through > the archives and found a lot of hangups, deadlocks and freeze issues. What is > the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box enough, or dual > core or ASIC
> based platforms? I'm aware that there are so many FreeBSD based routers and > network based devices in the market. Is this a way to go over realtime and > embedded OS such as VxWorks and others (mostly commercial) without putting > the licensing cost in picture? I really appreciate any help, suggestions and > recommendations. More power to FreeBSD! > > Thanks > Kirc > > > --------------------------------- > Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it > now. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:56:45 -0700 > From: "Bruce A. Mah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Progress for 7.0 - the "what's cooking" page > To: Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > If memory serves me right, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Andrew Gallatin wrote: >>> The TSO/LRO section needs a little updating. >>> >>> According to find sys/dev | xargs grep -l IFCAP_TSO, TSO is present in >>> at least: bce, cxgb, em, ixgbe, msk, mxge, nfe, nxge, re >>> >>> Based on grepping for IFCAP_LRO, LRO is currently available only in mxge. >> Ok, I've updated this information, and most of the others given in this >> thread. >> >> Does anyone know what's going on with features like sun4v architecture >> and superpages? > > (Replying to a random message in this thread.) > > As you work on this, consider submitting changes to the release notes in > case those of us who work on them have forgotten something. The > audience and purpose of the release notes is a little different from > your Web page, but some appropriate of overlap is a Good Thing (TM). > > Thanks! > > Bruce. > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 249 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > Url : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/attachments/20070906/27bdf224/signature-0001.pgp > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:37:49 +0200 > From: Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OS choice > To: Kirc Gover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > > Am 06.09.2007 um 19:05 schrieb Kirc Gover: > >> Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware >> without any specific or major refinements in its code? > > In /usr/src/tools/tools/tinybsd you'll find a convenient script to > build one-readonly-partition embedded systems. Another piece of work > worth looking for is M0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch/wall/) > > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:34:28 +0800 > From: Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OS choice > To: Kirc Gover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > FreeBSD should not have anz limits zou will ever reach if zou provide > the right hardware. > > You should also consider the licence. > > FreeBSD doesn't force you to publish any of your own work. > > Erich > > Kirc Gover wrote: >> We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of >> an edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would >> like to solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable >> OS. The router is expected to withstand forwarding of sustained traffic from >> 10Mbps to 1Gbps and maybe more than that. Are there any known limitations of >> FreeBSD in terms of architecture and performance? Can I just take out a >> FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware without any specific or major >> refinements in its code? I'm very much concerned with its capability in >> forwarding heavy sustained traffic. Packet loss should be at minimum and >> critical userland processes should working normally even under heavy load. >> Are there any known specific limitations of FreeBSD? I have browsed through >> the archives and found a lot of hangups, deadlocks and freeze issues. What >> is the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box enough, or dual >> core or ASI C >> based platforms? I'm aware that there are so many FreeBSD based routers and >> network based devices in the market. Is this a way to go over realtime and >> embedded OS such as VxWorks and others (mostly commercial) without putting >> the licensing cost in picture? I really appreciate any help, suggestions and >> recommendations. More power to FreeBSD! >> >> Thanks >> Kirc >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it >> now. Kric, FreeBSD is most powerful free OS on the planet , as per your requirements the two variants of of FreeBSD are very perfect m0n0wall and pfsence, i personally admire pfsense it works well on my case for routing almost 100MB traffic of my network & i have tested it ob Gigabyte LAN too, though its web interface have few problems but it can be modified easily to make a perfect router / firewall / gateway .both m0n0wall and pfsense works fine with sokeris , but it is obvious depending on your that it can bear load or not , sokeris running Asterisk on Linux works very well fro routing almost 100 IP phones of my office very well. Regards Mr.Router _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
