Sangeeta Misra wrote:
...
I am interesting in knowing what folks think about the idea of
exploring router appliances using Solaris (akin to the now-defunct
Linux Router Project). I am also interested in knowing of other
problems we can work on to make Solaris an even better candidate
operating system for routing purposes.
A key candidate for roles such as this is being able to build a
targetted, stripped down version of Solaris. This may require getting
rid of drivers for SCSI controllers, RAID controllers, building a
version of libc that has only the required functions, shipping only one
of libxnet/libsocket+libnsl, etc. You get the idea.
In short, how do you make a Solaris that installs into 64MB (or less,
for a compact flash card) that can serve web pages for configuring
networking, etc?
In short, a lot of the problems and things that require doing are just
as much to do with packaging and building of Solaris than the actual
functionality provided by the kernel.
Darren
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