I'd saw that everyone had running openbsd on a hp procurve 5300xl switch on this modul here. http://www.hp.com/rnd/accessories/J8162A_/accessory.htm but i don't know some details. it would be very interesting.
Thomas On Friday, 6. April 2007 09:14, you wrote: > Diana is right. Newer switches uses ASICs (Application Specific > Integrated Circuits) to do the switching. Making the MAC Address > lookup table basically hardwired into the hardware. That is why > switches are basically wire speed unlike a software bridge which is > slow in comparison. > > Glenn, I would really doubt that you will be able to put OpenBSD or > NetBSD onto this Linksys switch. The firmware (boot) and the software > work together very closely on switches. If the firmware and software > do not much up, you can run across problems also. I would check on > Linksys.com to see if they have newer firmware and software then you > have on your switch. Most managable switches will allow you to setup > VLANs and SNMP through the web interface. > > Good Luck, > > rc > > On 4/5/07, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
