https://www.opennetworking.org/
Hardware works quite well. I have a number of whitebox units deployed based off their designs and will be ordering more. On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Ricky Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:17:59 -0500, Hank Nussbacher <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> so to clarify I am interested only in bare-metal or whitebox swicthes >> and freeware, open source software. >> > > It's my understanding that there simply is no such thing. Because none of > the HARDWARE has open source code. Sure, anyone can write software to > spirit packets between NICs (linux and *BSD has had that capability for > decades.) But doing that "at scale" with the various manufacturers SoCs > requires vendor specific code to setup and control the chip. The broadcom > "NDK" is just a shim on top of a pre-compiled proprietary SDK blob. > > --Ricky > -- :o@>
