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[Eoin Kenny <>]

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

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Subject: [RARE-users] RARE/freeRtr first release for [Wedge 100BF-32X, Wedge 
100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]

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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