Re: OS choice

2007-09-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the usual or minimum hardware requirement? Is soekris box > > enough, or dual core or ASIC based platforms? > > A soekris box probably doesn't have the I/O bandwidth nor the CPU power > to process a full BGP feed. "Henning and [Bob] hol

Re: OS choice

2007-09-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Kirc Gover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Yes. > What is the

Re: OS choice

2007-09-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, FreeBSD should not have anz limits zou will ever reach if zou provide the right hardware. You should also consider the licence. FreeBSD doesn't force you to publish any of your own work. Erich Kirc Gover wrote: We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development o

Re: OS choice

2007-09-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.09.2007 um 19:05 schrieb Kirc Gover: Can I just take out a FreeBSD as is and put it with the hardware without any specific or major refinements in its code? In /usr/src/tools/tools/tinybsd you'll find a convenient script to build one-readonly-partition embedded systems. Another piece

OS choice

2007-09-06 Thread Kirc Gover
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 traffi