Re: announcement of freerouter

[Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>]

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" <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.
>
> 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 <josh () kyneticwifi com>
> > > To: mate csaba <matecs () niif hu>
> > > Cc: cs () nop hu, NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> > > Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter
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> > >
> > > 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" <matecs () 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