We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development of an
edge router that will be based mostly on OpenSource software. I would like to
solicit for information and recommendation if FreeBSD is a suitable OS. The
router is expected to withstand forwarding of sustained traffic from 10Mbps to
1Gbps and maybe more than that. Are there any known limitations of FreeBSD in
terms of architecture and performance? Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and
put it with the hardware without any specific or major refinements in its code?
I'm very much concerned with its capability in forwarding heavy sustained
traffic. Packet loss should be at minimum and critical userland processes
should working normally even under heavy load. Are there any known specific
limitations of FreeBSD? I have browsed through the archives and found a lot of
hangups, deadlocks and freeze issues. What is the usual or minimum hardware
requirement? Is soekris box enough, or dual core or ASIC
based platforms? I'm aware that there are so many FreeBSD based routers and
network based devices in the market. Is this a way to go over realtime and
embedded OS such as VxWorks and others (mostly commercial) without putting the
licensing cost in picture? I really appreciate any help, suggestions and
recommendations. More power to FreeBSD!
Thanks
Kirc
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