I have been assigned to put XORP on a custom board, and I came across the posting below which says, "XORP's original design didn't consider the possibility of an embedded deployment."

Being new to XORP, is it intended for use on an embedded system?

I have approximately 20 MB available. Is it be possible for me to put XORP on my board? If not, any recommendations for an embedded, open source routing stack?


From jt.conklin at xorp.net Thu Apr 2 05:52:39 2009
From: jt.conklin at xorp.net(J.T. Conklin)
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:52:39 -0700
Subject: Support for kernels with large (10MB+) initramfs images
Message-ID: <6c5c8a400904011152n1dadb9bdoa244004595dbd95e at mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to embed the open source XORP routing stack in 85xx based
embedded system. XORP's original design didn't consider the
possibility of an embedded deployment, so just getting it all to fit
within the 32MB flash of our target has been a challenge all by
itself.

Well, maybe is the answer. With enough work and support almost anything can be done.

Your problem is the board. You'd have to most likely take some base and port it. Maybe start with freesco or other simple stuff.