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SONiC
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OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi
Running FOSS software on a switch is an awkward endeavor. Some switches have okay-to-decent support, mostly via OpenWRT, and you’re mostly getting VLAN control. With Ruckus or Cisco, etc, you also get ACLs, some “layer 3” capabilities, sFlow, SNMP, real support for various loop detection schemes, network mapping capabilities, possible diagnosis of cable problems, and lots more. And a configuration system that is quite a bit better than you will find in most Linux networking config software. (Although OpenWRT actually tries pretty well, in contrast to, say, Ubuntu. Sigh.)
I would not want to run a large network using OpenWRT switches. Maybe if OpenWRT took management of multiple devices seriously some day.
FWIW, in theory you can run a mostly-open Linux stack on some of the very software-defined switches, supporting OpenFlow and such. See, for example, https://github.com/sonic-net/SONiC/wiki This did not seem like an easy thing to get working.
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Switches That You Actually Own
For switches? OpenWrt supports a few models toward the lower end, and SONiC support a bunch at the higher-end datacenter ToR market, but none of these options are SME production-ready like Linux servers or OPNsense firewalls.
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IPv4-only ISPs, IPv6-only websites and EU regulation 2015/2120
I have all sorts of expensive and cheap hardware, personally and professionally. SoCs are SoCs, and these need to run Linux or BSD for a reason. There's plenty of big silicon running Linux, but if you know any better small silicon, by all means, let us know.
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Question regarding switch vendors for 25GbE 48-port switches with 100GbE uplinks
To see more of what's on offer, check Colfax (not as broad a range as they once carried) and the HCLs for the main ONI OSes, starting with SONiC.
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SONiC with a home grade device?
You can scour ebay for hardware on the HCL, but they're all going to be pretty loud and power hungry. I have some hardware at work that SONiC would run on and I wouldn't want to run them at home. It looks like you can run it in containers though as described here.
- [SONiC-VS] EVPN-VXLANv4 w/ BGP unnumbered
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How to use SONiC on CML
SONiC on virtual machine for Windows https://github.com/sonic-net/SONiC/wiki/SONiC-on-virtual-machine-for-Windows
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Ask HN: Dear Cisco, how about our home labs?
If you aren’t going for a Cisco-specific certification I would forget about getting exclusively Cisco gear and look for any open/‘gray box’ hardware that run newer open network OSes like SONiC [0], or Pica8 [1]. The skills are transferable and second-hand hardware from a variety of manufacturers like Edge-Core, QCT, or Dell or others is available for super cheap on eBay.
The advantage here is having a wide variety of experience outside of Cisco lock-in with open software (normally Linux based, some are based on *BSDs) and the actual software license is free and open for the most part. You also will get a full linux distro with a familiar cli so you can run automation and config management code directly on the switch, which would help you learn multiple things at once. Also it doesn’t hurt that you’d get 10 gigabit, or even 100g(!), Ethernet for your homelab for super cheap :).
For your shopping, look at the SONiC hardware compatibility list [2], often you can find lots of these for cheap.
[0] https://github.com/sonic-net/SONiC
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Would you use white label switches in a small enterprise setting?
I'd lean toward Edge-Core or something from a specific HCL instead of FS. Some of the other brands previously available to us have either disappeared or are being highly affected by supply-chain disruptions.
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How to get started Dell S4112F-ON / ONIE
with https://github.com/Azure/SONiC but I dont have a BIN file and I am not sure that was even the right Sonic?
core
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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize
dnsmasq can be used for wildcard domain aliases in OPNsense firewall, https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/4145#issuecomment-12...
- OPNsense Wildcard Support in Firewall Host Alias (2022)
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How to bypass public IP and NAT
Firmware's like Asuswrt-Merlin or OpenWRT can support dynamic-dns, or you can do like I do and run something like OPNsense in an x86 VM with a NIC passed through, or buy an inexpensive firewall appliance (up to 500mbps/1gbps/10gbps).
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Stop ISP from getting into my Router
The easiest solution is to buy your own router, set it up, disable the router functionality on the Fritzbox 7590 and plug your router into it. It'll be cheaper and easier than a Cisco Firewall, but if you want to go the dedicated firewall route then I would recommenced OPNsense
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Near Constant PTR lookups from localhost
Much searching lead me to a possible patch Unbound.inc for how it was handling aliases for 23.7 -> https://github.com/opnsense/core/pull/5925
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The world in which IPv6 was a good design
[2]: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/2544
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OpenBSD Innovations
BSDs may not have a significant presence on desktops, but they're well known in the networking world for their reliability. They also were the foundation used to build OSes for specific applications. OpnSense and XigmaNAS, for example, are two excellent FreeBSD based applications aimed at firewalling/security and NAS/services.
https://opnsense.org/
https://xigmanas.com/xnaswp/
- Root user access denied when adding new users?
- OPNsense: Open-source security platform
What are some alternatives?
sonic-buildimage - Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
docker-pihole-unbound - Run Pi-Hole + Unbound on Docker
sonic-utilities - Command line utilities for the SONiC project
openwrt - Linux distribution for embedded devices
openNDS - openNDS (open Network Demarcation Service) is a high performance, small footprint, Captive Portal. It provides a border control gateway between a public local area network and the Internet.
asuswrt-merlin.ng - Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase)
UTMFW - UTM Firewall on OpenBSD
unifios-utilities - A collection of enhancements for UnifiOS based devices
pfelk - pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack
miniProxy
pfSense - Main repository for pfSense
vector - A high-performance observability data pipeline.