Dear Carl-Daniel,
Am 25.07.23 um 18:54 schrieb Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
is there any currently commercially available switch or router hardware
(10Gbit/s or more) running coreboot and preferably also Linux?
I'm currently trying to build a PoC network where all components have
mostly FOSS firmware and operating systems.
My Wifi access points and 1 Gbit/s switches are running U-Boot and
OpenWrt, so on that tier I'm covered. OpenWrt is even running on very
few select 10 Gbit/s switches, but there the bootloader seems to be
U-Boot+blob.
My institute is migrating to using whitebox switches with dentOS [1].
These are ARM devices with ONIE support, so the firmware part – U-Boot
in this case, no coreboot – is FLOSS with the Marvell switching ASIC
supported by Linux’ swtichdev interface. dentOS is a Open Network Linux
fork, and therefore also based on Debian. There are alternatives like
Replica.one [2], Gentoo based, and plans by Amazon to use
Yocto/OpenEmbedded. (As it’s supported by the upstream Linux kernel, and
the firmware should be in linux-firmware, you should be able to use any
distribution.)
For routing, I'm currently using PCEngines APU2 with coreboot and
Debian, but those are not really made to handle routing or even NAT at
more than 1 Gbit/s.
No idea about the routing features of the RTL838x devices supported by
OpenWrt [3][4]. My institute is going to use switches using that chip.
Unfortunately, there is no vendor support (Zyxel), so using OpenWrt you
are on your own.
Once the PoC phase is done, I expect required routing/NAT/packet
filtering bandwidth to exceed 5 Gbit/s and I'd like to use a coreboot
based product for that.
If necessary, I can add a few network cards to a general-purpose server,
but a purpose-built device would be preferred.
Suggestions? Comments?
Cisco Meraki, whatever that is, also has a coreboot port, that isn’t
upstream though [5].
Kind regards,
Paul
[1]: https://dent.dev/
[2]: https://github.com/sartura/replica/
[3]:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-rtl838x-based-managed-switches/57875
[4]: https://svanheule.net/switches/rtl93xx
[5]:
https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/NAJKJC6VJYU6TBTE5PG7PG5TMPCTVAOE/
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