On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:
> In fairness, when I first looked at the page, I was confused too. > That content of web page(s) must have been altered between when Josh R. and I viewed it. > > It said it ran as a “Router OS Process” which made me think that it was > somehow a virtual router that ran inside the Mikrotik operating system > known as Router SO and I was scratching my head going: > > A: How can that possibly work? > B: Why would you want it to? > > Now, realizing that the guy probably made an honest mistake without > realizing > he was using someone else’s trade name in the process, it makes much more > sense. > > Confusing, but in the end, much ado about nothing[1] all around. > yep Keeping us on our toes. :-) > > Owen > > [1] No intent here to misuse any intellectual property of any Bard or > other person. > > > > On Dec 29, 2015, at 01:08 , Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: > > > > It wasn't about trolling, it was about legitimate prior art and > reasonably > > so. Also, there's potentially a confusing association between the two. > > > > I'm glad the terminology was removed. > > On Dec 28, 2015 2:31 PM, "Laszlo Hanyecz" <las...@heliacal.net> wrote: > > > >> Mike, > >> > >> Csaba's front page previously described the software as being a > >> 'routerOS', like in the very first sentence on the page. I'm assuming > that > >> the person who complained about that didn't read past the first sentence > >> and just wanted to troll. It's obvious to me that decades of work have > >> gone into this free router software, and the term router OS was just > being > >> used to describe what the software does - an OS for a router. > >> > >> It looks to me like the author has a deep understanding of networking to > >> be able to implement all this from scratch and I think we can learn a > lot > >> from reading this code. He's also giving it away for free, which is > hard > >> to argue with. > >> > >> -Laszlo > >> > >> On 2015-12-28 18:28, Mike - st257 wrote: > >> > >>> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 22:23:24 -0600 > >>>> From: Josh Reynolds <j...@kyneticwifi.com> > >>>> To: mate csaba <mat...@niif.hu> > >>>> Cc: c...@nop.hu, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > >>>> Subject: Re: announcement of freerouter > >>>> Message-ID: > >>>> <CAC6=tfb4=DmpXBgG159NH-p+uTxa+uwf3vOrB= > >>>> rss8t6yq7...@mail.gmail.com> > >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >>>> > >>>> RouterOS is an existing product by MikroTik. > >>>> > >>>> Mate Csaba's message had nothing to do with MikroTik RouterOS (from > >>> Latvia, > >>> which doesn't include IS-IS support). And Mikrotik RouterOS isn't free. > >>> ;-) > >>> > >>> Why was this response about RouterOS? (Am I missing something?) > >>> > >>> The posted presentations/slides touch upon the feature set of FreeRtr > >>> (which is similiar to MT RouterOS, but which many production-ready > Network > >>> OSes have). > >>> http://freerouter.nop.hu/present.html > >>> And CLI output examples: > >>> http://freerouter.nop.hu/present.html > >>> > >>> > >>> On Dec 24, 2015 9:46 PM, "mate csaba" <mat...@niif.hu> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> hi, > >>>>> pleased to announce a stable release of freerouter. > >>>>> > >>>> Neat. > >>> > >>> > >>> this is a routing daemon that does packet handling itself > >>>>> so it can do bridging, routing ipv4/ipv6 unicast/multicast, > >>>>> mpls, vpls, evpn, mpls te, mldp, segment routing, and so on... > >>>>> speaks a lot of routing protocols like rip, ospf, isis, eigrp, bgp, > >>>>> babel... > >>>>> does a lot of tunneling like gre, ipip, ipsec, l2tp, geneve, vxlan, > >>>>> nvgre... > >>>>> have a lot of built in servers like dns, http(s), smtp, pop3, telnet, > >>>>> tacacs, radius, ssh... > >>>>> it can start external images which could be connected, so various lab > >>>>> topolgies can be easily created. > >>>>> our nren uses if as primary fullbgp rr for more than a year for about > >>>>> hundred routers. > >>>>> here is the homepage: http://freerouter.nop.hu/ > >>>>> feel free to try it out and send suggestions/bug reports...:) > >>>>> thanks in advance, > >>>>> csaba mate > >>>>> niif/hungarnet > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //
