[dev] Open Network Equipment and FRRouting

Tobias Jungel tobias.jungel at bisdn.de
Tue Jan 22 04:14:42 EST 2019


On Mon, 2019-01-21 at 20:36 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 08:08:06PM +0100, Łukasz Wójcik wrote:
> > Hello Andrew,
> > 
> > 
> > Indeed, I am aware of how netlink works, I was just hoping that
> > there
> > will be some kind of unified API, same for pretty much every ASIC.
> 
> I doubt that is going to happen for a while, at least for L3 devices.

I agree and imho the most promising approach seems to be the Stratum
Project (https://stratumproject.org/) which is going to be open sourced
this year. Hence you would be able to deal with fixed function ASICs
and flexible ones. Let's keep fingers crossed ;)

/tobi




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