Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-19 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert E. Seastrom) writes: Joel Jaeggli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I actually use freebsd as a router on soekris, but I do need a general purpose os on the system as well. Speaking of Soekris (and the PCEngines ALIX by extension, of which I have several): Does anyone

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Nathan Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19/08/2008, at 11:32 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Also, from time to time I have to reflash these to repurpose them (NanoBSD vs. pfSense vs. AskoziaPBX). It's a complete pain to disassemble their enclosures so I can get at the CF cards. I've often

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-19 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 19.08.2008 um 16:28 schrieb Robert E. Seastrom: What I want to do is have a minimal functionality netbootable image that is sufficient to set up network interfaces and then do: ftp get pfsense.img | dd of=/dev/ad0 and completely blow away what's on the flash and replace it with something

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
William Pitcock wrote: Hi, We're looking at using Mikrotik's RouterOS for some some sort of software routing solution as part of our network in combination with supervised layer3 switching doing most likely some sort of limited BGP. Does anyone else here run it? Is it any good? Is it better

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Scott Francis
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Nathan Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/08/2008, at 12:16 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: haven't used routeros in a while but at the time it was inoffensive, it's not derived from a general purpose system so it's not something you bolt additional bits on if you

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/08/2008, at 5:20 PM, Scott Francis wrote: sounds a lot like Chris Cappuccio's flashdist[0], although that's OpenBSD-specific. (worth noting that I'm partial to OpenBSD here, for both the security track record and tools like pf(4), carp(4), OpenBGPD, etc.) Yep, but no 6to4, which I