• 256MB USB key/Compact flash media,
• 1Go of RAM (256MB are enough for virtualized tests)
• processors: x86 (64 bits preferred) or sparc64
• consoles: standard vga/keyboard or headless (serial)

• Base OS: Embedded FreeBSD 9.1-Release using NanoBSD
• Easy upgrade process using two system partitions

• All routing protocol supported by quagga: BGP, RIP and RIPng (IPv6), OSPF v2 and OSFP v3 (IPv6), ISIS
• All routing protocol supported by Bird: BGP, RIP and RIPng (IPv6), OSPF v2 and OSFP v3 (IPv6)
• Multicast: DVMRP, IPv6 PIM Dense Mode and Sparse Mode
• Multiple FIB: 16 Routing Tables available
• High availability with CARP (support also load balancing the incoming connections) and VRRP.
• Multi-link PPP: PPTP, PPPoE, L2TP, etc… (all features supported by mpd)

• Traffic shaper with IPFW+dummynet supporting: FIFO, WF2Q+, RR (Deficit Round Robin), QFQ
• Alternate queuing with ALTQ supporting: CBQ (Class Based Queuing), RED (Random Early Detection), RIO (Random Early Drop), HFSC (Hierarchical Packet Scheduler), PRIQ (Priority Queuing)
• Committed Access Rate with netgraph: Single rate three color marker (RFC 2697), two rate three color marker (RFC 2698), RED-like, Traffic shaping with RED

• 802.1q vlan tagging
• link aggregation and link failover interface
• bridging with support of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w)

• DHCP Relay
• DHCP Server

From CLI only:

• local console, serial and SSH access
• Command completion with somes BSDRP tools: config, system, show and upgrade

• SNMP v1,v2c and v3
• Syslog
• Mail
• Netflow with native ng_netflow (v5 and v9) or fprobe (v5 and v7)

• mtree reference files available for system integrity check (sha256)

benchmark:

• NetPipe
• Iperf
• FreeBSD tools netblast/netreceive/netsend