> My understanding is the same as Ricky's. At least in the Broadcom word, you
> have to license the SDK from Broadcom in order to develop against it and, more
> importantly, have documentation of which register does what. I don't know if
> you need to license it to program the ASIC (assuming you c
On 01/09/2018 10:46 PM, Andrey Khomyakov wrote:
My understanding was that when you buy software such as Cumulus Linux, what
you are actually paying for is the Broadcom license. You can actually go
and download Cumulus Linux and it's all open source except, you guessed it,
switchd, which is what t
My understanding is the same as Ricky's. At least in the Broadcom word, you
have to license the SDK from Broadcom in order to develop against it and,
more importantly, have documentation of which register does what. I don't
know if you need to license it to program the ASIC (assuming you can do it
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 wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:17:59 -0500, Hank Nussbacher
> wrote:
>
>> so to clarify I am inte
On Tue, 09 Jan 2018 02:17:59 -0500, Hank Nussbacher
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
to:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Burkholder
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 11:12 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?
> > Not necessarily true anymore. Look for SwitchDev, which is
> > incorporated into the Linux kernel , is undergoing continuous
> > improvement, and allows the kernel to offload forwarding rules to the
> hardware.
>
> The overall architecture of openswitch, however, seems (to me) to be
> focused
> > If you're only interested in stuff that goes on iron, openvswitch is
> > out - it's pure software meant to run on hypervisors
>
> Not necessarily true anymore. Look for SwitchDev, which is incorporated into
> the Linux kernel , is undergoing continuous improvement, and allows the kernel
> to
>
> If you're only interested in stuff that goes on iron, openvswitch is out -
> it's
> pure software meant to run on hypervisors
>
Not necessarily true anymore. Look for SwitchDev, which is incorporated into
the Linux kernel , is undergoing continuous improvement, and allows the kernel
to o
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hank Nussbacher
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2:18 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?
I have seen numerous comparisons and RIPE presentations on performance issues
of BI
Hank Nussbacher
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 2:18 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?
I have seen numerous comparisons and RIPE presentations on performance issues
of BIRD vs Quagga vs FRR.
I am looking for the same thing for freeware switch softw
I have seen numerous comparisons and RIPE presentations on performance
issues of BIRD vs Quagga vs FRR.
I am looking for the same thing for freeware switch software.
Has anyone done a feature comparison between:
http://openvswitch.org/
https://www.openswitch.net/
https://cumulusnetworks.com/produc
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