RE: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-11 Thread 7riw77
> 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

RE: Comparison of freeware open source switch software?

2018-01-09 Thread 7riw77
> > 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