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Re: announcement of freerouter
From: Mike - st257 <silvertip257 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:01:01 -0500
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo () 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 -0600From: Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> To: mate csaba <matecs () niif hu> Cc: cs () nop hu, NANOG <nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter Message-ID: <CAC6=tfb4=DmpXBgG159NH-p+uTxa+uwf3vOrB= rsS8T6YQ7Fsg () 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 (fromLatvia, 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" <matecs () niif hu> wrote:hi,pleased to announce a stable release of freerouter.Neat.this is a routing daemon that does packet handling itselfso 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
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Current thread:
- announcement of freerouter mate csaba (Dec 24)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Josh Reynolds (Dec 24)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Gabriel Marais (Dec 25)
- Re: announcement of freerouter mate csaba (Dec 25)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Alan Buxey (Dec 26)
- Re: announcement of freerouter mate csaba (Dec 26)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Gabriel Marais (Dec 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: announcement of freerouter Mike - st257 (Dec 28)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 28)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Mike - st257 (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Josh Reynolds (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Rob Seastrom (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Matthew Petach (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Owen DeLong (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Josh Luthman (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Mike - st257 (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Mel Beckman (Dec 29)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Jimmy Hess (Dec 30)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Ćukasz Bromirski (Dec 30)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Josh Reynolds (Dec 30)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Laszlo Hanyecz (Dec 28)
- Re: announcement of freerouter Josh Reynolds (Dec 24)