Free Open Source Network Operating Systems

Steve Noble snoble at sonn.com
Sat Mar 9 20:25:38 UTC 2019



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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