Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:32:10 -0500 From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> To: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Meraki Message-ID: < CALFTrnPpBQLHRRDkMnt1nz8Wi0k3B6KEmt9tbgNS-wfRHqSnqQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
It looks like Brocade has swapped out Quagga with IP Infusion's non-free version, ZebOS. They also decided to abandon the FOSS Vyatta Core project.
A number of years back it was interesting to see Vyatta switch from XORP [0] to Quagga. I found out quite a while after they made the move. Bummer. This move by Brocade is unfortunate.
It's really unfortunate, as the FOSS project is the only reason I was interested in paying the licensing. It was attractive to have Vyatta Core as a no-cost option for small things, and the subscription edition for higher visibility devices. Now that they've moved away from having any FOSS project, I'm not really inclined to invest in the product, I'm sure there are others who feel the same way.
There is a group of people who were active in the Vyatta community trying to get a fork of it going under the name VyOS, http://www.vyos.net/
Thanks for pointing out VyOS.
As far as Ubiquiti, it looks like about 2 years ago they actually hired a few people from Vyatta, Inc. to work on EdgeOS. So development of EdgeOS has continued [and likely will continue] independently, though it looks like at least a few people from UBNT are interested in seeing VyOS happen and participating on their own time. I know one of the early goals for VyOS is to get the documentation up on their Wiki and have a release of the current Vyatta Core with the name swapped out as a starting point.
For those of you that purchased EdgeRouter Lite (ERLite-3) [2] units recently, do they come in plastic enclosure or the steel enclosure like the EdgeRouter PoE (ERPoe-5) [3] units? We got a few of each in at the office at different times (first ERL and later ERPoe). Just curious. I guess I'm spoiled ... I like the metal case much better than the plastic ones. Once I saw the case of the PoE model and saw the new pictures [4] for the ERL on Ubiquiti's site I've been holding out purchasing an ERL for my home. I should bug our distributor, but I doubt they'd know since they aren't opening the boxes prior to shipment. Although a commercial alternative, Mikrotik hardware (ex: RB750GL [1]) and OS is attractive. It appears all Mikrotik "integrated solutions" include some sort of enclosure (see www.routerboard.com). The CLI takes some getting used to, but the syntax makes sense after a while. ;) There's also a webui called webfig and a Windows client called Winbox.
I really hope the VyOS project can get off the ground. If any developers familiar with maintaining Debian-based distributions are on-list, I know the project is looking for people to help.
+1 I hope VyOS project succeeds. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XORP [1] http://routerboard.com/RB750GL [2] http://www.ubnt.com/media/product/edgemax/hardware-overview/edgerouter-lite-... [3] http://www.ubnt.com/media/product/edgemax/hardware-overview/edgerouter-poe-1... [4] http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#EdgeMAXhardware -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //