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  1. Re:Are there any miniBSD's akin to uClinux? by glitchvern · · Score: 1 · on miniBSD - reducing FreeBSD

    He said non-MMU processor families such as the Coldfire, MIPS, or ARM.
    If you look at netbsd's ports page you'll note that it says, "NetBSD should be portable to just about any 32bit or larger machine with an MMU. Machines without an MMU would be more work."
    So while it is possible to port Netbsd to non-mmu machines it is a bit more work. It should be noted there are 7 Netbsd ports to arm, 11 ports to mips, and I think none to Coldfire's. They list further arm ports as being fairly trivial to do. They do not state how difficult ports to other MIPS would be. Coldfire is a subset of the 68k architecture of which there are many NetBSD ports for which could be used as a starting point. There does appear to be commercially available partial Coldfire port of OpenBSD from Stallion Technologies, so it is possible to do.
    But what he was really asking was is there any bsd set up to be easily ported in general to platforms without mmu's the way uClinux is. The answer is currently no. Although that is one of NetBSD's future goals according to their 2002 USENIX Presentation.

  2. What's the application? by shoppa · · Score: 4, Informative · on ADSL Bandwidth Aggregation w/ Multiple Accounts?
    In order to really make a single fat pipe you need hardware and/or software at both ends of the connection to do the aggregation. Are you connecting, say, a remote business office with headquarters? If so, the Stallion approach you already mentioned should work fine, as you can coordinate the equipment on both ends.

    I get the impression from your rejection of load balancing that you are more typically on the "client" rather than the "server" end of a connection. (Or maybe you're a server with only a single client, in which case load balancing probably doesn't help either.)

    If you're a guy in his house who wants a fatter pipe to download single big files, you probably cannot get the folks at the server to install special equipment for you. If your ISP will help you to support aggregation by putting equipment on their end to hook into their upstream connection, that's not so bad, and some small regional ISP's do specialize in this. But you'll have to tell us where you are to get a recommendation for such ISP's.

  3. Re:They don't compensate for downtime?! by AngusSF · · Score: 1 · on Telecommuters and Downtime?
    Here's another commercial product that purports to bond multiple broadband connections: ePipe http://www.stallion.com/html/products/esw-overview .html
    by bonding multiple DSL or T-1 connections into one faster connection, independent of the provider infrastructure ...
    &nbsp:
    ePipe ServerWare load balances Internet traffic and provides scalable data bandwidth between locations across multiple analog, ISDN, wireless, T-1, Frame Relay or ADSL links. This provides incremental bandwidth management over a range of connection and network types, removing the cost barrier of dedicated high-speed data services.

    Works over any link type (DSL/T1/cable as well as ISDN/PSTN and wireless)


    TANSTAAFL - There's No Such Thing As A Free LAN
  4. Re:NLFUG by shub · · Score: 1 · on Walnut Creek CDROM And BSDi To Merge
    There's also going to be a port to PowerPC (in part, to support the MacOS X/Darwin effort, I would assume), they're looking at doing lots more "appliances" (e.g., Whistle/IBM InterJet II, Stallion ePipe, NetWolves FoxBox, and even perhaps going after the higher-end market like the NFS/CFS and web proxy cache servers from Network Appliance).

    They're also going to be pushing partnerships & co-marketing a lot harder, as well as a branding and pre-installation program so that you can make sure that the machine you buy is 100% compatible with FreeBSD, or you can even get FreeBSD pre-installed on the machine.

    There's a lot more that they're going to be doing. I'm just waiting for the updated plans to be posted to the web pages of Jordan K. Hubbard, CTO of Walnut Creek and soon to be CTO of the merged BSD, Inc.
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    Brad Knowles