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BSDTalk interview with Jeff Roberson (FreeBSD Dev)

Published on March 6, 2010 in BSD Router Project (bsdrp). 0 Comments

Podcast LogosBSDTalk has a 30 minute interview with Jeff Roberson. Will Backman talks withFreeBSD committer Jeff about his recent work on softupdates journaling (SUJ) and also the ULE scheduler.

BSDTalk 186 – Listen to the podcast: MP3 | OGG

BSD Router Project: New Kern, New Protocols

Published on March 3, 2010 in BSD Router Project (bsdrp). 0 Comments

The BSD Router Project (BSDRP) has released version 0.32 of its free embedded router distribution (previously mentioned here)

BSD Router Project (BSDRP) is an embedded open source router distribution based on FreeBSD with Quagga and XORP that fit on a 512Mb Compact Flash/USB.

Based on FreeBSD 8.0-Release-p2, the release comes with the new options ‘’show memory” and ‘’show traffic”, RCS revisioning for the configuration file and upload/download of data via SCP. Further new features include DHCP relay, NetFlow probes, the Link-Layer Discovery Protocol, (in OpenLLDP) and the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). A Userland variant has replaced the CARP implementation in the kernel and the Quagga routing software has been updated to version 0.99.15 (source)

Images for the BSD Router Project 0.32 will fit on a 512Mb Compact Flash/USB. The router distribution under the BSD license is available for download on the BSDRP homepage.

BSDRP Project Website | Features | Download

ANNOUNCEMENT: BSD Router Project (bsdrp)

Published on July 6, 2009 in BSD Router Project (bsdrp), FreeNAS, M0n0wall and pfSense. 0 Comments

Olivier Cochard-Labbé, an IP routing expert and founder of FreeNAS (a FreeBSD based Network-Attached-Storage system), has released the first alpha (0.1) image of his new project: BSD Router Project - http://bsdrp.net

bsdrp is an open source customised distribution of FreeBSD dedicated to offering IP routing services for small ISP’s.

The release 0.1 of BSDRP is a fully working prototype, to be used on real or virtual machines that boot from ATA device only (not usb).

This first release includes:

  • Base FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT system (NanoBSD) for i386
  • Customized script (config, upgrade, help, command completion, etc…)
  • Quagga ready to use (OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP, RIPng and BGP)

You may ask, what is the difference between BSDRP and m0n0wall of pfSense.

  • The main goal of BSDRP is not firewalling but routing. If you need a firewall don’t use BSDRP: Use m0n0wall or pfSense.
  • BSDRP is not for a home use, but for compagny use (small ISP’s for example).
  • BSDRP doesn’t have a Web GUI: It’s to be configured from a CLI only (like Cisco or Juniper)
  • pfSense can be used for routing, but Olivier wanted to set up a Cisco or Juniper like project just for routing.

Thanks, Olivier, for contacting me to announce this project. If you have any (new) FreeBSD related products or services that you want to announce, submit it here.