[aklug] Re: Free software switching and routing

Oops, just replied to Royce not the op.
On 2014-01-06 9:05 PM, "JP" <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
>
>> My only concern about Openwrt is the support cycle. Releases are
>> pretty infrequent, (about every two years), which doesn't lend itself
>> to the kind of security posture that someone running a publicly-facing
>> router should have, IMO. But that is the price that you have to pay
>> for supporting many disparate hardware platforms, I suppose.
>>
>> Royce
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Openwrt
>> >
>> > https://openwrt.org/
>> >
>> > They have an extensive list of supported hardware - don't see any of
>> the big
>> > name players like Cisco, Juniper, or Dells Force 10 however...
>> >
>> > If you can provision a Cisco 2960, then you'd feel right at home with
>> the
>> > commandline on Openwrt. A classmate setup a Linksys with Attitude
>> Adjustment
>> > using the commandline - it was pretty smooth.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>> > Christopher Howard
>> > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 6:50 PM
>> > To: aklug@aklug.org
>> > Subject: [aklug] Free software switching and routing
>> >
>> > Hey guys, I was wondering - can you buy routers and smart switches, for
>> > medium to large business needs, that run some kind of free software? Or
>> are
>> > you stuck with using proprietary Cisco and Juniper OSes? (That's the
>> only
>> > thing I've seen where I work.)
>> >
>> > I know, of course, that you can turn any crappy PC into a router with
>> the
>> > right Linux software packages, and I've heard of about a dozen
>> different DIY
>> > router distros. But what about the situation where you have lots of
>> money to
>> > buy networking equipment, but no time to put together custom software
>> and
>> > hardware?
>> >
>> > --
>> > http://www.lugod.org/presentations/pgp/why.html
>> >
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Received on Mon Jan 6 21:31:00 2014