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I'm not an expert of these technologies, but is this some sort of OpenWrt competitor?
by Galanwe 11y ago
I'm not an expert of these technologies, but is this some sort of OpenWrt competitor?
- wmf 11y agoNo, it's a competitor to Arista, Cumulus, Pica8, OcNOS, FBOSS, etc.
- Galanwe 11y agoSo what is OpenWrt then? I thought it was a small linux aimed at being installed on routers/switches
- epistasis 11y agoOpenWrt is meant for single router/switch installations in the home or office. These switch operating systems are for building large fabrics for out of 48-port 10g/40g top-of-rack switches (soon to perhaps be 25g/100g switches?). They support automated configuration management, large BGP configurations (often through Quagga), probably some layer 2 magic, and probably some hardware acceleration for network virtualization on the later Broadcom chips.