I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited.
At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans SDK. https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux <https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux> ? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Colton Conor <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run on > whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches? > > I know Cumulus is very popular, but I don't believe they have a free version > that runs on whitebox switches right? Only on a virtual machine from what I > can tell. > > I think if one of these vendors would release a free and truly opensource > network operating system, with the option for paid support if needed, then > whitebox switching would really take off. This would be similar to the Redhat > model, but for the networking world. > > Right now, the cost of the whitebox plus a paid network operating system > seems to equal the same cost as a discounted Juniper, Cisco, or Arista. I am > not seeing the savings on paper. > > If we could just buy the whitebox hardware, and have a free operating system > on there, then financially whitebox switches would be half the cost of a > similar Cisco switch after discount. > > Am I missing something? > >
