Thanks for your input.
I get the point with the closed ASICs. I wasn´t aware of that and it
explains why there is even no OpenWRT, pfsense etc. support for this
devices
sad.
best
Thomas
2017-07-17 11:45 GMT+02:00 Reyk Floeter :
> Yes, I'm very interested in this but there is no "open" h
Yes, I'm very interested in this but there is no "open" hardware.
As Mischa mentioned, all of the platforms need vendor drivers
and AFAIK all of them are gigantic and non-free *.
OpenFlow is an alternative to control switches in a standard way
without direct access to the switch chipsets, but it
Hi Thomas,
I used to work for Cumulus and the tricky part with this is that you need to
get access to the broadcom (and melanox) shipsets, which is not trivial and
costly.
I would love to see a BSD running on open networking equipment!
There are more NOS out there but they have their own spec
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