Hi Greg, all, 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?
Regards, Alex On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:09 AM Greg Lindahl <lind...@pbm.com> wrote: > I'm buying a 100 gig ethernet switch for my lab, and it seems that the > latest gear is intended to run a switch OS. Being as cheap as I've > always been, free software sounds good. > > It looks like Open Network Linux is kaput. > > It looks like SONiC is doing pretty well. > > And there are several commercial offerings. > > Does anyone have experience with these OSes? Initially I'm going to > just have a single 32-port switch here and there, but I may have to > build much larger systems in the 6-12 month timeframe. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- greg > > p.s. I've left Silicon Valley and I'm working at the Event Horizon > Telescope, those people with the image of the ring around the black > hole. I'll be attending Supercomputing again! Surely there will be a > Beowulf Bash! > > p.p.s. and if any vendor wants to *sell* me aforesaid switch, please > send me a direct email. After 24 years of not having to get 3 quotes > for smallish purchases, my purchasing department is driving me nuts. > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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