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So what is OpenWrt then? I thought it was a small linux aimed at being installed on routers/switches

• epistasis 11y ago
  OpenWrt 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.