Tobias Waldekranz
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Go for something simple - Tux trapped in an RJ45 jack. Also, remove the old versions that we don't use any more. They're in the log if we ever need them.
Introduction
Infix is a Linux Network Operating System (NOS) based on Buildroot, and sysrepo. A powerful mix that ease porting to different target platforms, simplify long-term maintenance, and also provide made-easy management using NETCONF1 .
Infix can run on many different types of architectures and boards, much thanks to Linux and Buildroot. Currently the focus is on 64-bit ARM devices, optionally with switching fabric supported by Linux switchdev. The following boards are fully supported:
- Marvell CN9130 CRB
- Marvell EspressoBIN
- Microchip SparX-5i PCB135 (eMMC)
An x86_64 build is also available, primarily intended for development and testing, but can also be used for evaluation and demo purposes. For more information, see: Infix in Virtual Environments.
See the GitHub Releases page for our pre-built images. The Latest Build has the bleeding edge images, if possible we recommend using a versioned release.
For customer specific builds of Infix, see your product repository.
Topics
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CLI Topics
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Infix In-Depth
Origin & Licensing
Infix is entirely built on Open Source components (packages). Most of them, as well as the build system with its helper scripts and tools, is from Buildroot, which is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING for details.
Some files in Buildroot contain a different license statement. Those files are licensed under the license contained in the file itself.
Buildroot and Infix also bundle patch files, which are applied to the sources of the various packages. Those patches are not covered by the license of Buildroot or Infix. Instead, they are covered by the license of the software to which the patches are applied. When said software is available under multiple licenses, the patches are only provided under the publicly accessible licenses.
Infix releases include the license information covering all Open Source
packages. This is extracted automatically at build time using the tool
make legal-info. Any proprietary software built on top of Infix, or
Buildroot, would need separate auditing to ensure it does not link with
any GPL2 licensed library.
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or RESTCONF, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8040, for mode information, see Infix Variants. ↩︎
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Infix image builds use GNU libc (GLIBC) which is covered by the LGPL. The LGPL does allow proprietary software, as long as said software is linking dynamically, not statically, to GLIBC. ↩︎