Re: announcement of freerouter

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Amazing what the proprietary appropriation of a single Word can do :)

 -mel

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
>
> > In fairness, when I first looked at the page, I was confused too.
>
> That content of web page(s) must have been altered between when Josh R. and
> I viewed it.
>
>
> > It said it ran as a “Router OS Process” which made me think that it was
> > somehow a virtual router that ran inside the Mikrotik operating system
> > known as Router SO and I was scratching my head going:
> >
> > A: How can that possibly work?
> > B: Why would you want it to?
> >
> > Now, realizing that the guy probably made an honest mistake without
> > realizing
> > he was using someone else’s trade name in the process, it makes much more
> > sense.
> >
> > Confusing, but in the end, much ado about nothing[1] all around.
>
> yep
> Keeping us on our toes.
> :-)
>
>
> > Owen
> >
> > [1] No intent here to misuse any intellectual property of any Bard or
> > other person.
> >
> >
> > > On Dec 29, 2015, at 01:08 , Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > > > > > 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 (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
>
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