Re: announcement of freerouter

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

At the time of the announcement, this is what the page looked like (GIF attachment attempted). 




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Mike Hammett 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Laszlo Hanyecz" <laszlo () heliacal net> 
To: "Mike - st257" <silvertip257 () gmail com>, nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 2:29:20 PM 
Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter 

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