Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Claudio, On Fri, 06.04.2007 at 12:09:38 +0200, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the most expensive Cisco/Foundry/Extreme switches have not the CPU power to route or filter packets. how comes they boast running BGP and such stuff? Eg. Cisco 6509 and up, or Extreme Black Diamond?

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/04/20 09:48, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Claudio, On Fri, 06.04.2007 at 12:09:38 +0200, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the most expensive Cisco/Foundry/Extreme switches have not the CPU power to route or filter packets. how comes they boast running BGP and such stuff?

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-20 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:48:44AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Claudio, On Fri, 06.04.2007 at 12:09:38 +0200, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the most expensive Cisco/Foundry/Extreme switches have not the CPU power to route or filter packets. how comes they boast running

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-20 Thread Pete Vickers
Pete Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +47 48 17 91 00 Systemnet AS On 20 Apr 2007, at 10:42 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:48:44AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Claudio, On Fri, 06.04.2007 at 12:09:38 +0200, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even the most expensive

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread Karl Sjödahl - dunceor
On 4/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:52:25PM +0200, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote: On 4/5/07, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread rc
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
RedShift wrote: Hello all, I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs) and the webinterface only

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread rc
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/04/06 10:26, RedShift wrote: RedShift wrote: I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs)

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:54:03AM -0600, rc wrote: 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. Oh please. A managed switch is not even closely able to run PF especially those cheapo Linksys thingis with

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread Siju George
On 4/6/07, 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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:56:11AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. My company is

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
Claudio Jeker wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:54:03AM -0600, rc wrote: 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. Oh please. A managed switch is not even closely able to run PF especially those cheapo

running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread RedShift
Hello all, I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs) and the webinterface only works correctly

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Karl Sjödahl - dunceor
On 4/5/07, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs)

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Siju George
On 4/5/07, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/5/07, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the ARM 946 has a MMU which I'm pretty it needs to run OpenBSD. So I think you are out of luck. Don't know if Linux runs on systems without MMU but it's worth a try. One of

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:52:25PM +0200, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote: On 4/5/07, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Shockley
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
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

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: 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. Sam, while I'm sure that was fun to setup I have