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Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems
From: Steve Noble <snoble () sonn com>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 12:25:38 -0800
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 the terms under which it (or at least the necessary hardware documentation) is distributed would permit a clean F/OSS implementation.If it would, then you just need to find someone at Broadcom to give you the time of day...
If you don't need the SDK specifically and are using a Broadcom based switch you can get of-dpa or OpenNSL for multiple switches from https://github.com/Broadcom-Switch/ . You can also normally get of-dpa, OpenNSL and even SAI from the switch vendor directly.
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- Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Colton Conor (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Jason Lixfeld (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Brandon Martin (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Steve Noble (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems John Hay (Mar 11)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Brandon Martin (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Tim Jackson (Mar 09)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Colton Conor (Mar 10)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Luke Marrott (Mar 11)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Colton Conor (Mar 10)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems James Bensley (Mar 13)
- Re: Free Open Source Network Operating Systems Jason Lixfeld (Mar 09)