announcement of freerouter

Tue Dec 29 19:29:08 UTC 2015

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

 -mel

> On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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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