Re: Ethernet Switch and MIPS

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:31:53AM +1300, Marcos Biscaysaqu wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
>             We have a very interesting Embebed FreeBSD base system using
> Netgraph, BGP, Voip over IP (SER and Asterisk), PF, Remote Desktop Client
> (netboot), VLANs, Q-in-Q Vlan, VPN, L2tp, pptp, Xmail, Dhcp server, Wireless
> etc.. All the setting and config files are created by a "central management
> Platform"  (Web Interface and  Database) . We have more than 600 of this
> devices running different services for 4 years.  We would like to release an
> open free version of the system and also a commercial one and we would like
> to know if you know about some kind of "Ethernet switch"  from 8 to 24 ports
> able to run Freebsd  and also if somebody could give us an opinion or ideas,
> we would like to know if this could be an interesting idea to do for the
> Freebsd community.

Don't know what you mean by "Ethernet switch", but a switch is a
switch and not a host.
Do you think about doing lan bridging with FreeBSD?
That's Ok for a few ports, but with many of them it's better to do in
hardware.
I've build sn ARM based board with an 820.1q capable switch, which is
controlable by FreeBSD, but this is still a switch and a FreeBSD host
although they are on a single board.
It's a 5 port switch with 1 port to FreeBSD, but it's not a major
difference to use switch chips with more ports.
And finally you can still use a 08/15 manageable switch and control it
from FreeBSD - even if it's in a different place.

You really should be more specific what you mean.

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