Check out OpenWRT, this is essentially linux (busybox on a linux kernel I believe) that you can load on a router and it runs on more than a handfull of routers. It's not freebsd. Not sure if the Cisco 837 is supported though, but many other routers are. If not supported, just go out and buy a cheap router that is supported and replace your cisco.
Michael Grant On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris H <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out > a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over > a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/modem). > So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a > box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it > be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike > one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched > the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing > that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it > is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can > tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. > Maybe someones already tried it? > > Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. > > --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
