<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At one time ONL was a free ONIE NOS but sans SDK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux" class="">https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux</a> ?<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On Mar 9, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Colton Conor <<a href="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com" class="">colton.conor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">What free, opensouce, network operating systems currently exist that run on whitebox broadcom or other merchant silicon switches?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">I know Cumulus is very popular, but I don't believe they have a free version that runs on whitebox switches right? Only on a virtual machine from what I can tell. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think if one of these vendors would release a free and truly opensource network operating system, with the option for paid support if needed, then whitebox switching would really take off. This would be similar to the Redhat model, but for the networking world. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Right now, the cost of the whitebox plus a paid network operating system seems to equal the same cost as a discounted Juniper, Cisco, or Arista. I am not seeing the savings on paper. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If we could just buy the whitebox hardware, and have a free operating system on there, then financially whitebox switches would be half the cost of a similar Cisco switch after discount.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Am I missing something?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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