Let us know if you get this working. I would love to run OpenBSD on my switches. PF running at wire speed would be beyond awesome.
rc On 4/6/07, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On 4/5/07, Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Siju George wrote: >> > I wish somebody would design a simple hardware that has 24 or more NIC >> > ports ( and of course WiFi ) and processor than can install OpenBSD. >> > With PF then I could have a very inexpensive managed switch with ACLS >> > for all hosts on the network:-) >> >> The problem isn't just getting lots of ports on a device (usb could >> probably do that), it's getting lots of ports on a device and getting >> them all to run at full bandwidth. >> >> > I have been interested for quite some time in making a Switch with OpenBSD > See this post > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-03/2353.html > you may find this interesting > > Sam Fourman Jr. > I have already done this. In essence a switch is nothing more but a big bridge. Ofcourse, with a regular computer you are limited on how many ports you can use, and since a switch is made for this goal... http://www.uclinux.org/ is a collection of patches to run linux without an MMU. It does have some restrictions though. I've tried to analyze the original linksys firmware images, but it's just a big heap of binary code. In both images (it has a boot and a "software" image) the letters RNTP occur, which could be led to runtop. Does anyone know about this runtop software? Thanks, Glenn
