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A caution re: EdgeOS. The control plane is largely open source but the data plane uses closed-source kernel modules and closed/proprietary APIs to drive the Cav
by jauer 11y ago
A caution re: EdgeOS. The control plane is largely open source but the data plane uses closed-source kernel modules and closed/proprietary APIs to drive the Cavium Octeon network processor. They seem to be adopting more closed control plane in newer versions because there aren't any mature FOSS stacks for service provider oriented protocols (e.g. MPLS+VPLS+RSVP-TE+LDP+...). On the closed side there are a handful of vendors that provide control plane stacks for all that.
- arca_vorago 11y agoYeah, I am aware of that, and frankly their track record for GPL compliance is shitty too, but it was a comprimise of sorts. It seems really sad to me that it's 2015 and we still don't have an allprotocol router/firewall thats enterprise ready and open source... maybe that's just my naively idealistic side speaking though.