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[Eoin Kenny <>]

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

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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
>
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Wednesday 18 May 2022 07:56
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> Subject: Re: [RARE-users] [rare-dev] RARE/freeRtr first release for [Wedge 
> 100BF-32X, Wedge 100BF-32QS, Wedge 100BF-64X and APS6064X]
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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]
>
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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