Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 18:23:16 +0200, mc36 <> said:

> rare/rare should be the credentinals, but seemingly something else is 
> running here...
> alex: any idea what spams here? that prompt seems weirdo, without any 
> user/pass, and then the segfault to quit... :)

I have never seen a 2556 boot, so can't compare. All the messages
about "luaCLI" and "cmdShell" seems to be related to the Marvell
stuff. Don't know if that's part of the SAL. I certainly have never
seen this when I tested the RARE release on Jordi's 2556 :/

At least the rest appears to be as expected :)

@Eoin, the rare user can also sudo and you can login with root without
pw on the serial console. Should all be in the docs somewhere. Maybe
@Frederic can provide a pointer.

-- 
Alex

> br,
> cs


> On 7/7/22 17:44, Eoin Kenny wrote:
>> Hi Csaba, Alex,
>> 
>> Ok, I did my BIOS upgrades from 1.0 to 1.2.1 and finally 1.3.
>> 
>>> From the onie prompt I stopped onie using onie-stop and addeded a public 
>>> IP address/route. 
>> Using onie-nos-install 
>> http://hydra.nix.net.switch.ch/RARE/releases/1/onie-installer.bin
>> The install kicked off. A copy of the output is here:
>> https://github.com/sonicepk/BF2556X-1T-ONIE-freeRouter/blob/main/stordis-install.txt
>> 
>> I now have a Debian login prompt. I could not find this in the 
>> documentation or in this email archive...
>> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/installation/wedge100bf32/onie-nos-install/
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Eoin
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: mc36 <>
>> Sent: Wednesday 6 July 2022 17:53
>> To: ; Eoin Kenny; 
>> Subject: Re: [rare-dev] [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for [Wedge 
>> 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> hi,
>> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/installation/wedge100bf32/onie-nos-install/
>> it's for the wedges, but imho it should not be different for the bf2556tx
>> tl;dt: first try this particular box in an isolated lab because there are 
>> two things to note:
>> 1) we had a port up/down issue in that release so it's highly recommended 
>> to upgrade to something newer...
>> 2) i run a bf2556tx and there were magical issues: running the switch on 
>> the official bsp970 designed for sde970
>> on a debian11 installation, everything worked fine... whereas running 
>> official image (sde971 + bsp970) was not...
>> as it's my core router of my homenet and when it caused issues, i was cut 
>> offline from almost all of my troublehsooting
>> tools, so i just noted the issue and left it as is... i simply plugged the 
>> power cord of the switch as nothing else helped...
>> since these experiences, the box is at my nren (we're piloting a 4k mpls 
>> l2tp lns) on debian11 + sde990 without bsp...
>> that possibility is on it's way to the official releases, but as my box is 
>> remote, i did not had the chance to play
>> with if further on the latest official rare builds...
>> regards,
>> cs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/6/22 18:13, Eoin Kenny wrote:
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> 
>>> We now have or BF2556X-1T. It boots to an ONIE shell. Is there an 
>>> installation guide for freeRouter on the BF2556X-1T?
>>> Thanks
>>> Eoin
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From:  
>>> <> on behalf of Alexander Gall 
>>> <>
>>> Sent: Wednesday 18 May 2022 07:56
>>> To: 
>>> Cc: 
>>> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] [rare-dev] RARE/freeRtr first release for 
>>> [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]
>>> 
>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Eoin
>>> 
>>> The BF2556X-1T is already supported, it was just missing in Fr  d  ric's
>>> list :)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 17 May 2022 15:27:40 +0000, Eoin Kenny <> 
>>> said:
>>> 
>>>> Hi RARE team,
>>>> Great to see freeRouter/NOS support for the boxes below. Are there any 
>>>> plans to support the BF2556X-1T?
>>> 
>>>> You have a review of the BF2556X-1T here, so it sounds like you might be 
>>>> working on it:
>>>> https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148091012
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Eoin
>>> 
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From:  
>>>> <> on behalf of Fr  d  ric LOUI 
>>>> <>
>>>> Sent: Friday 6 May 2022 18:53
>>>> To: ; 
>>>> Subject: [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for [Wedge 100BF-32X, 
>>>> Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]
>>> 
>>>> CAUTION[External]: This email originated from outside of the 
>>>> organisation. Do not click on links or open the attachments unless you 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>> The whole team is proud to announce the first release of RARE/freeRtr 
>>>> NOS on :
>>>> - Wedge 100BF-32X
>>>> - Wedge 100BF-32QS
>>>> - Wedge 100BF-64X
>>>> - APS6064X
>>> 
>>>> This release is a first of its kind. It boasts:
>>> 
>>>> - an OpenSource routing NOS with feature rich features such as MPLS, 
>>>> Segment Routing, SRv6 and related service (IPv4 and IPv6 L3VPN, VPLS 
>>>> EVPN etc.)
>>>> - OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, RIP IGP with SR extension support
>>>> - Unique in-house IGP: LSRP, PVRP  with SR extension
>>>> - BGP (v4 and v6) with an long list of address family support
>>>> - a unique and innovative forwarding paradigm called Polka (kudo to UFES 
>>>> ;) )
>>>> - an extensive list of specific tailored profile (the RARE/freeRtr can 
>>>> act as P/PE,BNG,BRAS, CGNAT, traffic cleaner and more !)
>>>> - an innovative software life cycle management leveraging Nix package 
>>>> manager paradigm.
-> it is possible to upgrade and rollback without any hitch at the software 
distribution level
>>>> (think of an "apt upgrade" with the possibility to "apt downgrade #n    
>>>> at the router level)
>>>> - multicast BIER
>>>> - AMT gateway/relay
>>>> - unicast 2 multicast translator
>>>> - the possibility to run on TOFINO(*) ASIC unlock 32x100GE traffic 
>>>> switching
>>>> - A one liner ONIE image installation
>>>> - and more
>>> 
>>>> (*) It is not included in this release but RARE/freeRtr also runs on 
>>>> DPDK, XDP, libpcap dataplane solution.
>>> 
>>>> More information at:
>>>> http://docs.freertr.org
>>>> http://blog.freertr.org
>>>> http://rare.freertr.org
>>> 
>>>> Last but not least: freertr.org
>>> 
>>>> For those you wants to start their journey:
>>>> http://docs.freertr.org/guides/installation/
>>> 
>>>> A large kudos to mc36 and Alex for their extraordinary and amazing work.
>>> 
>>>> For the future:
>>>> * New features
>>>> * new dataplanes
>>>> * but also TOFINO2 supports that will pave the road to 400G network path
>>> 
>>>> We sincerely hope that you would enjoy a great experience with this 
>>>> release !
>>> 
>>>> Feel free to engage with us via:
>>>> -  for users
>>>> -  for developers
>>>> - IRC via #freertr @ hackint
>>>> - Discord via RARE/freeRtr guild (upon invitation)
>>> 
>>>> Happy networking,
>>> 
>>>> All the best
>>>> Frederic