Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-13 Thread James Bensley
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 16:09, Colton Conor wrote: > Right now, the cost of the whitebox plus a paid network operating system > seems to equal the same cost as a discounted Juniper, Cisco, or Arista. I am > not seeing the savings on paper. I'm not going to defend the prices of Cisco/Juniper/et

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-11 Thread John Hay
What about SONiC? https://azure.github.io/SONiC/ On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 18:39, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK > is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. > > At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-11 Thread Luke Marrott
Been a long time since I’ve messed with it but Vyatta may be worth looking at. https://vyos.io/ On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 09:09 Colton Conor wrote: > What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run > on whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches? > > I know

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-10 Thread Colton Conor
Are either of you using SONiC in production? Seems to be well backed, and have good feature support. On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:42 PM Tim Jackson wrote: > SONiC > > https://azure.github.io/SONiC/ > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:09 AM Colton Conor wrote: > >> What free, opensouce, network

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-10 Thread Colton Conor
Luke, Does VYOS run on bare metal broadcom switches though? I know it runs on X86, but I wan't aware it could run on bare metal switches. I don't see a hardware compatibility list on their website either. On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:32 AM Luke Marrott wrote: > Been a long time since I’ve messed

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Tim Jackson
SONiC https://azure.github.io/SONiC/ On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:09 AM Colton Conor wrote: > What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run > on whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches? > > I know Cumulus is very popular, but I don't believe they have a free

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Steve Noble
Brandon Martin wrote on 3/9/19 12:18 PM: On 3/9/19 11:36 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. It likely is not. What would be interesting to know, however, is if

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Brandon Martin
On 3/9/19 11:36 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. It likely is not. What would be interesting to know, however, is if the terms under which it (or at least the

Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Jason Lixfeld
I could be making this up, but my understanding is that the Broadcom SDK is not free, and without the SDK, hardware interaction is limited. At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans SDK. https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux

Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

2019-03-09 Thread Colton Conor
What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run on whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches? I know Cumulus is very popular, but I don't believe they have a free version that runs on whitebox switches right? Only on a virtual machine from what I can tell. I