On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> wrote:
On 18/08/2008, at 12:16 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
haven't used routeros in a while but at the time it was inoffensive, it's not derived from a general purpose system so it's not something you bolt additional bits on if you need them.
RouterOS is Linux based. You're correct though, you can't bolt extra stuff on to it, though I'm pretty sure they do their own 'packages', so maybe 3rd parties can bolt stuff on that way? I dunno.
I actually use freebsd as a router on soekris, but I do need a general purpose os on the system as well.
I do this as well, works fantastically.
I've got some build scripts that build NET4x01 images. Kernel and root filesystem in a single file, boot off a FAT32 formatted compact flash card with GRUB installed on it. Config in a single file (a filesystem image that gets mounted at boot time). IPv6 support. [snip]
sounds a lot like Chris Cappuccio's flashdist[0], although that's OpenBSD-specific. (worth noting that I'm partial to OpenBSD here, for both the security track record and tools like pf(4), carp(4), OpenBGPD, etc.) [0]http://www.nmedia.net/flashdist/ -- darkuncle@{gmail.com,darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key