Greetings, I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/modem). So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. Maybe someones already tried it? Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. --Chris
Hello, and thank you for your reply. While it's not /exactly/ what I was looking for - it's close. :) The "filtering" capability is my biggest gripe on the Cisco *DSL products. They're just not as /capable/ as is offered in FBSD. DNS is another plus (pfDNS). But I don't think I'd be modify pfDNS to accomodate BIND, or unbound. Although tinydns might be able to fit the bill. Oh well, it's close - thanks for the pointer. :) --Chris Quoting Lawrence Farr <freebsd-stable@epcdirect.co.uk>:> Have a look at pfsense, don't think it's what you want tho. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris H >> Sent: 29 January 2009 09:51 >> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> Subject: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible? >> >> Greetings, >> I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out >> a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over >> a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the >> router/modem). >> So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a >> box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it >> be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike >> one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched >> the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing >> that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it >> is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can >> tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. >> Maybe someones already tried it? >> >> Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. >> >> --Chris >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
Check out OpenWRT, this is essentially linux (busybox on a linux kernel I believe) that you can load on a router and it runs on more than a handfull of routers. It's not freebsd. Not sure if the Cisco 837 is supported though, but many other routers are. If not supported, just go out and buy a cheap router that is supported and replace your cisco. Michael Grant On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:> Greetings, > I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out > a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over > a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/modem). > So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a > box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it > be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike > one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched > the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing > that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it > is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can > tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. > Maybe someones already tried it? > > Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. > > --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3@grant.org>:> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote: >> Hello, and thank you for your reply. >> >> While it's not /exactly/ what I was looking for - it's close. :) >> The "filtering" capability is my biggest gripe on the Cisco >> *DSL products. They're just not as /capable/ as is offered in >> FBSD. DNS is another plus (pfDNS). But I don't think I'd be >> modify pfDNS to accomodate BIND, or unbound. Although tinydns >> might be able to fit the bill. Oh well, it's close - thanks >> for the pointer. :) > > You can run iptables on openwrt.Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of pf(4). I think it's more efficient - especially combined with all the network tuning that has been done recently by Robert Watson, John Baldwin, Mohan Srinivasan, Peter Wemm, and others. Another reason I'm so inclined to be FBSD centric on this. :)> You can compile most anything for > it, you're only limited by it's memory and cpu. I'm not familiar with > pfDNS. But if it runs on freebsd, it probably can be made to run on > openwrt as well.Indeed, it's running a FreeBSD base. But like you said; CPU, and Memory are the only boundries here. Will need to do more research to compare limits against a /desired/ install base. Thanks again for the reply. --Chris> > Michael >
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>:> http://m0n0.ch/wall/ ?Good candidate. Thanks for mentioning it. On the up side - it's FreeBSD based. :) I guess my only disappointments would be that configuration is done by way of PHP. But of course I could fix that. Doesn't provide swap space - this seems like this could be a real liability under heavy load/outside abuse, even with a decent amount of RAM/Memory. Thanks again for the reply. --Chris> > On 1/29/09, Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote: >> Greetings, >> I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out >> a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over >> a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/modem). >> So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a >> box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it >> be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike >> one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched >> the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing >> that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that it >> is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can >> tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me further. >> Maybe someones already tried it? >> >> Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. >> >> --Chris >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:34 -0800 Chris H <chris#@1command.com> wrote:> a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over > a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the > router/modem). So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard > to build a box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn'tOn topic: shouldn't this discussion be on another mailing list? For eaxmple -questions or -net, or even -arch? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Chris H wrote:> Greetings, > I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out > a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over > a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/ > modem). > So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard to build a > box with FBSD that could replace it - am I crazy? Wouldn't it > be possible to upload a minimal build of FBSD to the modem, not unlike > one would tftp a new version of cisco's IOS, or CBOS? I searched > the projects area to see if anyone had tried it. But the only thing > that came anywhere near was netperf. But the only similarity is that > it > is network related. Anyway, this seems quite feasable as far as I can > tell. So I thought I'd ask in hopes someone might enlighten me > further. > Maybe someones already tried it? > > Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter. > > --ChrisGood luck on that. Probably not to be honest because Cisco does a great deal of corporate IP protection on their images, etc. I know because I work for Cisco :). All I can really say (based on my little knowledge) is that it's no doubt a PPC based embedded processor, so if you need to look further, I'd first explore and PPC ports to that specific chipset, and definitely make sure to check with the NetBSD folks and see if anyone has ported to that platform. Cheers, -Garrett
Quoting ?ukasz Bromirski <lukasz@bromirski.net>:> On 2009-01-30 03:18, Chris H wrote: > >> Please see: https://bsdforge.net/cisco-data/ for a list of manuals I >> have available for download on these (and similar). > > What's the sense of downloading it from Your site, if cisco.com > contains the files?Because I was asked for more info on my hardware, and I /knew/ where my documentation was. Why try to discover (or ask others to) where the docs were on Cisco's site - which would assume it still existed. I guess I could have summarized in one word - convenience. ;)> > Go to cisco.com->Products and choose from routers. > > Or go to cisco.com/univercd and look for older interface to manuals.Thanks for the pointers.> > -- > "Don't expect me to cry for all the | ?ukasz Bromirski > reasons you had to die" -- Kurt Cobain | http://lukasz.bromirski.net >