Wasabi Systems announced its port of Wasabi Certified NetBSD to the Intel IXP425 network processor, on Intel's IXP425 evaluation platform. Wasabi says this represents the first availability of certified NetBSD support for the IXP425.

(Click for larger view of Intel's IXDP425/IXCDP1100 development board)

According to Wasabi, the Intel IXP425 is a versatile single-chip integrated processor designed for use in high-performance, cost-effective networked appliance applications in a variety of architectures. Utilizing the Intel Access Library, the IXP425 offers support for Ethernet and cryptographic hardware offload resources as well as standard peripheral devices. Offloaded implementations can now support packet processing at significantly higher rates compared with a software-only scheme.

Wasabi expects its IXP425 support to be used by OEMs to implement reliable, high-speed performance in networking and security appliances for SOHO (small office / home office) applications.

 
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