Re: [ECOS] Ecos or uClinux

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Lee Davies wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been looking at producing a low cost router (based on ARM) and I'm sure
> whether to use ecos or uClinux as a starting point. Both OS's provide TCP/IP
> stacks, however uClinux has a lot more code available for the basic router
> components (DCHP server, NAT, ARP, RARP, PPP even VPN). Ecos does have the
> advantage of being smaller (memory requirements) hence reduced hardware
> costs.
>
> Has anybody tried implementing a router with either ecos uClinux, who can
> offer any comments ?
>
> Have I missed any advantages/disadvantages I should be aware about with
> either ecos or uClinux ?

If those listed router components are your requirements, then you'd have 
to use uClinux unless you wanted to do (or pay for) development work. eCos 
doesn't have a DHCP server (although porting an existing one shouldn't be 
difficult), RARP (which very few things use so I doubt you should be 
bothered), NAT or VPN.

Jifl
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