Hi Carl-Daniel.
We had an issue with Cisco Meraki last year (see [1]) where it turned out that at least their MX84 and MX250 switches run with coreboot (looked like a Broadwell-DE based design). Maybe it is worth to have a closer look at their products for your use case.
Werner
[1] https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/coreboot@coreboot.org/thread/ONXER...
-----Original Message----- From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 6:54 PM To: Coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org Subject: [coreboot] switch or router hardware with coreboot
Hi,
is there any currently commercially available switch or router hardware (10Gbit/s or more) running coreboot and preferably also Linux?
I'm currently trying to build a PoC network where all components have mostly FOSS firmware and operating systems.
My Wifi access points and 1 Gbit/s switches are running U-Boot and OpenWrt, so on that tier I'm covered. OpenWrt is even running on very few select 10 Gbit/s switches, but there the bootloader seems to be U-Boot+blob. For routing, I'm currently using PCEngines APU2 with coreboot and Debian, but those are not really made to handle routing or even NAT at more than 1 Gbit/s.
Once the PoC phase is done, I expect required routing/NAT/packet filtering bandwidth to exceed 5 Gbit/s and I'd like to use a coreboot based product for that. If necessary, I can add a few network cards to a general-purpose server, but a purpose-built device would be preferred.
Suggestions? Comments?
Thanks, Carl-Daniel _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-leave@coreboot.org