announcement of freerouter

Mike - st257 silvertip257 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 19:08:05 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at 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 at 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 at 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 at kyneticwifi.com>
> >>>> To: mate csaba <matecs at niif.hu>
> >>>> Cc: cs at nop.hu, NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>         <CAC6=tfb4=DmpXBgG159NH-p+uTxa+uwf3vOrB=
> >>>> rsS8T6YQ7Fsg at 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 at 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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