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FreeBSD 10.0 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a neat little device that costs less than
US$100, has three Ethernet ports, and can run FreeBSD/mips. It's based on the
Cavium Octeon CN5020 platform and features a dual core 500mhz MIPS64
processor, 512MB RAM, and 4GB storage on removable USB.
 
The EdgeRouter Lite in the foreground, near a Netgear WNDR3700 and a bulky
ISP-provided cablemodem.

This page provides ready-to-use images of FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. Thanks to the
open nature of the EdgeRouter Lite, it's very easy to install and use these
images; just follow the instructions below. Thanks to the fine folks at the
FreeBSD Project, building your own is almost as easy. A script to build them,
along with instructions, is also provided. Special thanks is due to Juli
Mallett and Warner Losh, without whose hard work and generous assistance none
of this would be possible.

Note that this is experimental software which comes with no warranty of any
kind. These builds are works in progress and are not fit or suitable for any
purpose whatsoever. By proceeding you assume all risks.

On my EdgeRouter Lite, the builds provided below are stable and pretty much
fully functional. There are two outstanding issues:

Performance could be a little better, though it's more than adequate for my
home Internet connection. Basic packet passing between two Gigabit hosts
seems to top out at about 250Mbits/sec.

There is currently no way to pass boot options (such as single-user mode) to
the kernel from U-Boot.

Hardware crypto acceleration via /dev/crypto seems to work. Use AES in CBC
mode to see a huge speedup over CTR.

etc.
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