<div dir="ltr">Hi Greg, all,<div><br></div><div>I haven't done this in a few years but when I last bought generic Quanta 40G "whitebox" switches, they had a "free" base OS that you could use; I think it was typically limited in features but it was fine for me as I just wanted dumb L2 switches anyway. What does your vendor suggest?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alex</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:09 AM Greg Lindahl <<a href="mailto:lindahl@pbm.com">lindahl@pbm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm buying a 100 gig ethernet switch for my lab, and it seems that the<br>
latest gear is intended to run a switch OS. Being as cheap as I've<br>
always been, free software sounds good.<br>
<br>
It looks like Open Network Linux is kaput.<br>
<br>
It looks like SONiC is doing pretty well.<br>
<br>
And there are several commercial offerings.<br>
<br>
Does anyone have experience with these OSes? Initially I'm going to<br>
just have a single 32-port switch here and there, but I may have to<br>
build much larger systems in the 6-12 month timeframe.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance!<br>
<br>
-- greg<br>
<br>
p.s. I've left Silicon Valley and I'm working at the Event Horizon<br>
Telescope, those people with the image of the ring around the black<br>
hole. I'll be attending Supercomputing again! Surely there will be a<br>
Beowulf Bash!<br>
<br>
p.p.s. and if any vendor wants to *sell* me aforesaid switch, please<br>
send me a direct email. After 24 years of not having to get 3 quotes<br>
for smallish purchases, my purchasing department is driving me nuts.<br>
<br>
<br>
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