Amazing what the proprietary appropriation of a single Word can do :) -mel
> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Mike - st257 <silvertip...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > >> In fairness, when I first looked at the page, I was confused too. >> > > That content of web page(s) must have been altered between when Josh R. and > I viewed it. > > >> >> It said it ran as a “Router OS Process” which made me think that it was >> somehow a virtual router that ran inside the Mikrotik operating system >> known as Router SO and I was scratching my head going: >> >> A: How can that possibly work? >> B: Why would you want it to? >> >> Now, realizing that the guy probably made an honest mistake without >> realizing >> he was using someone else’s trade name in the process, it makes much more >> sense. >> >> Confusing, but in the end, much ado about nothing[1] all around. >> > > yep > Keeping us on our toes. > :-) > > >> >> Owen >> >> [1] No intent here to misuse any intellectual property of any Bard or >> other person. >> >> >>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 01:08 , Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: >>> >>> It wasn't about trolling, it was about legitimate prior art and >> reasonably >>> so. Also, there's potentially a confusing association between the two. >>> >>> I'm glad the terminology was removed. >>> On Dec 28, 2015 2:31 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. >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> -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 //