Features

BSD Router Project features list

• 2GB USB key/Compact flash media,
• 1GB of RAM (512MB are enough for virtualized tests)
• processors: x86_64
• consoles: standard vga/keyboard or headless (serial)

• Base OS: Embedded FreeBSD 12-STABLE using NanoBSD
• Easy upgrade process using two system partitions

• All routing protocol supported by FRRouting: 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, PIM Dense Mode, PIM Sparse Mode and static
• 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…
• VPN: GRE, GIF, IPSec (IKEv1 and IKEv2 with strongswan), OpenVPN and Wireguard
• IPv6: native 6to4 tunnels, stateless and stateful NAT64 with IPFW and Tayga for NAT64

• Traffic shaper with IPFW+dummynet supporting: FIFO, WF2Q+, RR (Deficit Round Robin), QFQ
• 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

•  Allows to create isolated router/firewall for multiple customers (using jail/vnet)

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

• All automation tools using python like Ansible

• monit
• SNMP v1,v2c and v3
• Syslog
• Mail
• Netflow with native ng_netflow (v5 and v9) and pmacct

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

• netmap's pkt-gen: high performance packet generator/receiver
• IPSec Equilibrium throughput
• netperf, iperf2 and Iperf3
• FreeBSD tools netblast/netreceive/netsend