I'd saw that everyone had running openbsd on a hp procurve 5300xl
switch on this modul here.
http://www.hp.com/rnd/accessories/J8162A_/accessory.htm
but i don't know some details. it would be very interesting.

Thomas

On Friday, 6. April 2007 09:14, you wrote:
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> Diana is right.  Newer switches uses ASICs (Application Specific
> Integrated Circuits) to do the switching.  Making the MAC Address
> lookup table basically hardwired into the hardware.  That is why
> switches are basically wire speed unlike a software bridge which is
> slow in comparison.
>
> Glenn, I would really doubt that you will be able to put OpenBSD or
> NetBSD onto this Linksys switch.  The firmware (boot) and the software
> work together very closely on switches.  If the firmware and software
> do not much up, you can run across problems also.  I would check on
> Linksys.com to see if they have newer firmware and software then you
> have on your switch.  Most managable switches will allow you to setup
> VLANs and SNMP through the web interface.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> rc
>
> On 4/5/07, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/5/07, Steve Shockley <steve.shockley@shockley.net> wrote:
> > > Siju George wrote:
> > > > I wish somebody would design a simple hardware that has 24 or more
> > > > NIC ports ( and of course WiFi ) and processor than can install
> > > > OpenBSD. With PF then I could have a very inexpensive managed switch
> > > > with ACLS for all hosts on the network:-)
> > >
> > > The problem isn't just getting lots of ports on a device (usb could
> > > probably do that), it's getting lots of ports on a device and getting
> > > them all to run at full bandwidth.
> >
> > I have been interested for quite some time in making a Switch with
> > OpenBSD See this post
> > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-03/2353.html
> >  you may find this interesting
> >
> > Sam Fourman Jr.