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[Frédéric LOUI <>]

Hi Muhammed,

> We are an ISP in India.
Got it.

>  Currently we are using a DPDK based BNG which is working great

So you already have an alternative

> but it is a one man show company, so cannot depend him always.

I see the point.

> We do not have resources for R&D to try,
As mc36 mentioned we are "eating our own dog food" , so I can also testify 
that RARE/freeRtr « just » works. 
And this is my personal opinion as a user that is using it 24x7 since 2019.

> rather we are looking for some one who can really help us to put things 
> together. 
The fact that you are not an R&E organisation or you are not an R&E 
subcontractor I presume that this will make things difficult.

However, that being said, if we guarantee that our software is working for 
R&E users, you can be assured it will work for you.
Granted the fact fact your use case is ~ similar. 

Nonetheless, I’ll relay this to GÉANT management attention and get back to 
you.

All the best,
Frederic

> Le 1 avr. 2022 à 16:12, Muhammed Ali <> a écrit :
> 
> Dear Frederic,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed explanation.
> 
> We are an ISP in India. We are looking for BNG/BRAS which can work on x86 
> machines. Currently we are using a DPDK based BNG which is working great, 
> but it is a one man show company, so cannot depend him always.
> 
> We do not have resources for R&D to try, rather we are looking for some one 
> who can really help us to put things together. 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> Muhammed Ali
> Technical Manager
> T: 484 2522950 | M: 7560983480
> E:  | www.stampedecom.in
> Municipal Veg. Complex
> AM Road | Perumbavoor, Ernakulum(Dist), Kerala
>  
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frédéric LOUI <> 
> Sent: 01 April 2022 18:55
> To: Muhammed Ali <>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] FreeRTR
> 
> Hi Muhammad,
> 
> RARE/freeRtr is an R&E project conducted under the umbrella of GÉANT 
> Association. (https://geant.org/)
> 
> Our mission is to:
> Create an open source routing platform that would fullfill R&E use case(S).
> 
> Each use case requiring inherently different speed, more or less 
> functionality and respective TCO, Therefore, we realised that having the 
> possibility to « hook » different dataplanes to freeRtr control plane was a 
> natural decision. 
> (Thus having TOFINO P4 and DPDK data planes mainly for situation where 
> throughput is requireed)
> 
> The project reached such a maturity that we think that it is the right 
> moment to share it more widely publicly.
> For now, we have no commercial offer with respect to software maintenance 
> as such for non R&E organisation.
> 
> We are basically providing the support you would expect from an Open Source 
> project that started in 2019.
> 
> Are you a R&E organisation ? Or does your project is for an R&E 
> organisation ? 
> If yes, we can report your interest to GÉANT Association attentionl and 
> appreciate how we can cooperate more closely with your local NREN.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback,
> Frederic
> 
>> Le 1 avr. 2022 à 14:44, Muhammed Ali <> a écrit :
>> 
>> I thought you are reffering me to some other team for support. 
>> 
>> So let's move on, how can we work together to get me BNG which supports 
>> ten thousands of pppoe/ipoe sessions with ipv4 and ipv6 support. The 
>> solituin should also supports cgnat for ipv4. 
>> 
>> In other words a fully commercial bng/bras.
>> 
>> Let's discuss
>> 
>> Get Outlook for Android
>> From: mc36 <>
>> Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 6:10:34 PM
>> To: Muhammed Ali <>;  
>> <>
>> Subject: Re: FreeRTR
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/1/22 14:37, Muhammed Ali wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> We really need someone who can put things together.
>>> 
>> from technical point of view, you're at the best place...
>> or what do you mean?
>> 
>> 
>>> Please share their contact or are you among them ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Muhammed Ali
>>> Technical Manager
>>> T:  484 2522950  |  M:  7560983480
>>> E:    |  www.stampedecom.in Mullappilly Arcade, 
>>> Post Office Road  |  Perumbavoor, Ernakulum(Dist), Kerala
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mc36 <>
>>> Sent: 01 April 2022 17:56
>>> To: Muhammed Ali <>; 
>>> Subject: Re: FreeRTR
>>> 
>>> hi,
>>> 
>>> On 4/1/22 14:14, Muhammed Ali wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How can you commercially support us ?
>>> if you really need this, imho the geant project is more than happy to 
>>> contract you...
>>> 
>>>> Do you have any BNG in production ? >
>>> we do eat our own dog food: all my openwrt aps here do pppoe (under 
>>> the gretap) moreover all my internet access does pppoe (and the 
>>> dataplane's point of view, it's completely irrelevant if it's a 
>>> client or server side, they just deal with the ip4/ip6 pppoe frames, 
>>> all the rest handled in freerouter...)
>>> 
>>> br,
>>> cs
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Muhammed Ali
>>>> Technical Manager
>>>> T:  484 2522950  |  M:  7560983480
>>>> E:    |  www.stampedecom.in Mullappilly Arcade, 
>>>> Post Office Road  |  Perumbavoor, Ernakulum(Dist), Kerala
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mc36 <>
>>>> Sent: 01 April 2022 17:38
>>>> To: Muhammed Ali <>; 
>>>> Subject: Re: FreeRTR
>>>> 
>>>> hi,
>>>> yesss, we do bng and bras and a lot more in dpdk or in tofino asic 
>>>> as you can find at http://rare.freertr.net/ br, cs
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 4/1/22 13:58, Muhammed Ali wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looking whether do you have BNG/BRAS setup did on freeRTR or any plan 
>>>>> to do so ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> We are interested in such project. Currently we are using 
>>>>> www.bisonrouter.com <http://www.bisonrouter.com> which is based on DPDK.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please let me know
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> 
>>>>> Logo <http://www.stampedecom.in/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Logo
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *Muhammed Ali***
>>>>> 
>>>>> *Technical Manager***
>>>>> 
>>>>> *T: *484 2522950  | *M: *7560983480
>>>>> 
>>>>> *E: * <>  | 
>>>>> www.stampedecom.in <http://www.stampedecom.in/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mullappilly Arcade, Post Office Road  |  Perumbavoor, 
>>>>> Ernakulum(Dist), Kerala
>>>>> 
>>>>> Facebook icon <https://www.facebook.com/stampedeindia>
>>>>> 
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