Table of Contents
Features
Requirements
- 1GB USB key/Compact flash media,
- 1Go of RAM (256MB are enough for virtualized tests)
- processors: x86 (64 bits preferred)
- consoles: standard vga/keyboard or headless (serial)
Base System
- Easy upgrade process using two system partitions
Routing features
- 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)
- VPN: GRE, GIF, IPSec (IKEv1 and IKEv2) and OpenVPN
- IPv6: native 6to4 tunnels and Tayga NAT64
Qos
- 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
Ethernet features
- 802.1q vlan tagging
- link aggregation and link failover interface
- bridging with support of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w)
Network services
- DHCP Relay
- DHCP Server
Management
Command Line
- local console, serial and SSH access
- Command completion with somes BSDRP tools: config, system, show and upgrade
Automation tools
- All automation tools using python like Ansible
Monitoring
- SNMP v1,v2c and v3
- Syslog
- Mail
- Netflow with native ng_netflow (v5 and v9)
Security
- mtree reference files available for system integrity check (sha256)
Extra tools
benchmark
- netmap's pkt-gen: high performance packet generator/receiver
- FreeBSD tools netblast/netreceive/netsend
features.txt · Last modified: 2016/09/08 07:51 by olivier
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