okkkk ive sent an invitation for them right now… (normally i do this in december-january after the yearly contract start) to the last years new email addresses… this year seems to be a bit different, so my local bossies and the french team leader feels the control u know…
“you’ll get a cake when you reach your 100th birthday”
edit: at that point u know… and there was a sudden death in the wider family this week… :((((( the black trash can remains for a month or so on the street… :(((( ← but this one just about the mood, dont 42! this one too much pls pls pls…
Leaba designed the silicon and a lot of the low level software that runs Cisco Silicon One products.
All of the statements above I am very confident about. All of the statements below I have not confirmed myself, but have heard from sources who should know.
I have heard that:
Cisco Silicon One is P4 programmable
for special-enough customers, they enable the customer to write their own P4 programs
for most customers of Cisco Silicon One products, Cisco engineers write the P4 code and a lot of the control plane software on top of that.
kina autobbot reply… ctrl+f p4 on the silicon one datasheet from me
then google ? q = “p4 programmable” site:cisco.com
About 19 results (0.25 seconds)
{with_ the quotes, without them u know
About 1,870 results (0.48 seconds)
now reread the above, vlad @ intel said ci$co never ordered a single tofino unit. all that it can do on the nexus is that it had some spare bytes in the “nontofino.bin” and if the compiler can fit the program then it’ll boot up the “nontofino” on the next power cycle.
my conspiracy theory here is that a p4lang–>nplang transpiler is working in the background… recall nplang have at least one feature that p4lang does not have and thats clearly visible on nplang.org as a png of a 5-10 loc npu/asic code…
now have a good morning, try breathe while you slippin’ your coffee…
edit; regarding the unsure parts, i’ll keep you posted, a partner nren ordered 4 x ciscio8001 and they can download the emulatior with the sdk, linked above somewhere… lemme copy-paste myself on thisss, i cant stop pinging my local cisco sales representatives to lemme have the torrent seed for a day… afterwards, u know…
and well not just the c7600, but the c3660 still can boot bugos and run tetris… thats the reason for the mips port… the ppc port… hmmm… cannot / shouldnt recall… XDDD
Also you can find a few hits on eBay for the search “Cisco Nexus 34180YC” for sale.
And Barefoot had to give Cisco at least a few boxes for internal development and testing before they were offered for sale, but maybe Barefoot was happy to give those away.
these cisco physical boxes with the locked bios are way less interesting here compared the bf-sde-9.13.0.tgz or the planned p4interpreter…
one plus note that nexus-es are switches and 3000 < 9000 so i can guess the price differences… but if you have some spare bucks fire the watchlist and somehow hack the bios of both to not check for the custom grub’s custom signature, imho in 5-10 years all these models will go 4 bucks… XDDDD
also note that bf6064 is also in my mail from ebay.ca and thats the 6.4tbps version of the bf2556 and according the images only 1 plug got damaged, the rest seems fine not to mention the bios screens of the electronic mass refurbisher… (okk i’ll need the emmc replacement but tbh i have about 1-5 spares sooo…)
for these stordis shits, i can even git clone the latest internal stuff sooo thanks for the useful reply…
if you wish we can goto1 but imho you wouldnt…
i just on this for(;1;);;;;;;;;;;
and you also have a challenge with the bgp pcap stuff…
update: tofino3 got a soldering map update in p4 tofino sdk 9.11.1 or something so it smells like intel is not dropping the programmable asic ethernet line for nothing…
in the long run we’ll see if how and when a programmable switch surrounding the asic arrives…
in the meanwhile im fighting the ad-mins @ addr(r)renaline-max here and there XDDDDDDDDDD
and here is the proof that the great cisco is also did something unbelievebeable again;
Securely migrate from Cisco IOS XR to SONiC
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As part of Cisco’s commitment to disaggregate hardware and software components and provide an open-source network, we have now enabled the infrastructure to securely migrate the network operating system from Cisco IOS XR to SONiC. This migration will ensure secure access to devices and integrity of software images to prevent software modification using unauthorized third-party images. While only the infrastructure is enabled in this release, the SONiC migration image will be available in the upcoming release. "
plus the fact they say it’s all-the-way p4 programmable … hmmmm…hmmmm…hmmmm…
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On-chip, high-performance, P4-programmable host NPU for high-bandwidth offline packet processing (for example, OAM processing and MAC learning)"
