[186708] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: announcement of freerouter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Luthman)
Tue Dec 29 13:39:15 2015
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In-Reply-To: <591A95F1-7B92-42F1-8F80-DAD31333746D@delong.com>
From: Josh Luthman <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 13:38:48 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Mike - st257 <silvertip257@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Thanks for clearing it up, I was still confused what Mikrotik's OS had to
do with it.
Josh Luthman
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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.
>
> It said it ran as a =E2=80=9CRouter OS Process=E2=80=9D which made me thi=
nk 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=E2=80=99s trade name in the process, it makes m=
uch more
> sense.
>
> Confusing, but in the end, much ado about nothing[1] all around.
>
> 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 senten=
ce
> >> and just wanted to troll. It's obvious to me that decades of work hav=
e
> >> 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=3Dtfb4=3DDmpXBgG159NH-p+uTxa+uwf3vOrB=3D
> >>>> rsS8T6YQ7Fsg@mail.gmail.com>
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-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 fre=
e.
> >>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>> 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, telne=
t,
> >>>>> tacacs, radius, ssh...
> >>>>> it can start external images which could be connected, so various l=
ab
> >>>>> topolgies can be easily created.
> >>>>> our nren uses if as primary fullbgp rr for more than a year for abo=
ut
> >>>>> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>
