[84620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: image stream routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Sat Sep 17 20:42:24 2005
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:41:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <432BB534.5030704@interlink.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
LD> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:18:28 +1000
LD> From: Lincoln Dale
LD> [without having looked at Imagestream in any way, shape or form..]
LD>
LD> it would be _unlikely_ that any router vendor that wants to support >OC3
LD> could do so with the 'standard' (non-modified) linux IP stack. if they are
LD> modifying the 'standard' linux IP stack then its very unlikely that one
LD> could do so without having to publish the source-code to it. (i.e. as per
LD> GPL).
Linux, reportedly with custom RIB/FIB code.
IANAL, but gpl-violations.org strikes me as interesting. A court order
not to ship product is rather serious...
(For those who didn't follow the link, no such injunction has been
granted against IS. However, other embedded-Linux OEMs have not been so
lucky.)
Eddy
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