Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between BSDRP and OPNsense or pfSense ?
The main goal of BSDRP is not firewalling but routing. If you are looking for a firewall, or for sharing your Internet access, don't use BSDRP but use
pfSense,
OPNsense,
SmallWall or
t1n1wall, instead.
BSDRP doesn't have a Web
GUI: It's to be configured from a CLI only (like Cisco/Juniper), or by an
API (like netconf) [planned feature]
BSDRP is not intended for home use but for company use (small ISP as example).
It depends on your hardware:
4 cores Atom with with multi-queue aware NIC is the minimum for a line-rate gigabit router (1.48Mpps of smallest packet size).
8 core Xeon is the minimum for a 10Gigabit Full-Duplex (10Gbps receiving + 10Gbps transmitting = 20Gbps) with IMIX packet size distribution
12 core Xeon is needed for a 10Gb line-rate router (14.8Mpps)
A server designed to support 40Gb/s of bidirectional traffic could almost support IPFW in stateless mode but not pf neither ipf:
It depends of your hardware and crypto algorithms used:
It depends of your hardware and crypto algorithms used, but a userland software it will be almost half lower than IPSec:
Can I install BSDRP on a MIPS or ARM device (RouterStation, D-Link, etc..) ?
BSDRP targets x86 architectures only.
ZRouter.org targets ARM and MIPS architectures.
The technical issues regarding the support of ARM/MIPS architectures with BSDRP are:
Be able to modify the bootloader (for changing the boot-partition) from the FreeBSD user space: Permit to switch the active partition after an upgrade
Having a bootloader that support a minimum boot-partition selection screen: Permit to revert-back to the previous version if the new installed version has major problem.
Can you add squid/apache/BitTorrent server/subversion/MySQL/etc. to BSDRP ?
Where is the forum ?