All, Cisco Meraki are possibly the most FOSS hostile vendor I have ever had the displeasure of trying to pry GPL source code from.
It took Meraki more than 12 months to provide the coreboot source code for the MX84 and MX250, and that occurred only after we (the hardware owners) lost patience and threatened to escalate the matter to coreboot/FSF. I have currently been waiting over 8 months for the source code of another Meraki product (that does not utilize coreboot, so is of no concern to this mailing list). I would not recommend Cisco Meraki or their hardware to anyone interested in open-source firmware/devices. You will have a bad time. Regards, Hal On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 10:50 AM Zeh, Werner via coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote: > > Hi Carl-Daniel. > > We had an issue with Cisco Meraki last year (see [1]) where it turned out > that at least their MX84 and MX250 switches run with coreboot (looked like a > Broadwell-DE based design). > Maybe it is worth to have a closer look at their products for your use case. > > Werner > > [1] > https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/ONXER67WIFHDAOSAOK3PNPBJIMHFXC2P/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 6:54 PM > > To: Coreboot <coreboot@coreboot.org> > > Subject: [coreboot] switch or router hardware with coreboot > > > > Hi, > > > > is there any currently commercially available switch or router hardware > > (10Gbit/s or more) running coreboot and preferably also Linux? > > > > I'm currently trying to build a PoC network where all components have > > mostly FOSS firmware and operating systems. > > > > My Wifi access points and 1 Gbit/s switches are running U-Boot and > > OpenWrt, so on that tier I'm covered. OpenWrt is even running on very few > > select 10 Gbit/s switches, but there the bootloader seems to be > > U-Boot+blob. > > For routing, I'm currently using PCEngines APU2 with coreboot and Debian, > > but those are not really made to handle routing or even NAT at more than 1 > > Gbit/s. > > > > Once the PoC phase is done, I expect required routing/NAT/packet filtering > > bandwidth to exceed 5 Gbit/s and I'd like to use a coreboot based product > > for that. > > If necessary, I can add a few network cards to a general-purpose server, but > > a purpose-built device would be preferred. > > > > Suggestions? Comments? > > > > Thanks, > > Carl-Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > > coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email > > to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
