On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz <las...@heliacal.net> wrote:
> Mike, > > Csaba's front page previously described the software as being a > 'routerOS', like in the very first sentence on the page. I'm assuming that > the person who complained about that didn't read past the first sentence > and just wanted to troll. It's obvious to me that decades of work have > gone into this free router software, and the term router OS was just being > used to describe what the software does - an OS for a router. > Thanks for the clarification. I did miss that particular sentence with 'router OS'. But perusal of two or three of freerouter's pages showed it to be more Cisco-like (much like Quagga's CLI syntax mimics Cisco IOS command syntax) than Mikrotik RouterOS. While freerouter != Mikrotik RouterOS, I can't disagree that Mikrotik RouterOS does deliver quite the bang for the buck. :-) > > It looks to me like the author has a deep understanding of networking to > be able to implement all this from scratch and I think we can learn a lot > from reading this code. He's also giving it away for free, which is hard > to argue with. Yes. Another alternative and a free one at that. > > > -Laszlo > > > On 2015-12-28 18:28, Mike - st257 wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:23:24 -0600 >>> From: Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> >>> To: mate csaba <mat...@niif.hu> >>> Cc: c...@nop.hu, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> >>> Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter >>> Message-ID: >>> <CAC6=tfb4=DmpXBgG159NH-p+uTxa+uwf3vOrB= >>> rss8t6yq7...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >>> >>> RouterOS is an existing product by MikroTik. >>> >>> Mate Csaba's message had nothing to do with MikroTik RouterOS (from >> Latvia, >> which doesn't include IS-IS support). And Mikrotik RouterOS isn't free. >> ;-) >> >> Why was this response about RouterOS? (Am I missing something?) >> >> The posted presentations/slides touch upon the feature set of FreeRtr >> (which is similiar to MT RouterOS, but which many production-ready Network >> OSes have). >> http://freerouter.nop.hu/present.html >> And CLI output examples: >> http://freerouter.nop.hu/present.html >> >> >> On Dec 24, 2015 9:46 PM, "mate csaba" <mat...@niif.hu> wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>>> pleased to announce a stable release of freerouter. >>>> >>> Neat. >> >> >> this is a routing daemon that does packet handling itself >>>> so it can do bridging, routing ipv4/ipv6 unicast/multicast, >>>> mpls, vpls, evpn, mpls te, mldp, segment routing, and so on... >>>> speaks a lot of routing protocols like rip, ospf, isis, eigrp, bgp, >>>> babel... >>>> does a lot of tunneling like gre, ipip, ipsec, l2tp, geneve, vxlan, >>>> nvgre... >>>> have a lot of built in servers like dns, http(s), smtp, pop3, telnet, >>>> tacacs, radius, ssh... >>>> it can start external images which could be connected, so various lab >>>> topolgies can be easily created. >>>> our nren uses if as primary fullbgp rr for more than a year for about >>>> hundred routers. >>>> here is the homepage: http://freerouter.nop.hu/ >>>> feel free to try it out and send suggestions/bug reports...:) >>>> thanks in advance, >>>> csaba mate >>>> niif/hungarnet >>>> >>> >> > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //