dentOS v3.2 Cynthia

dentOS v3.2 Cynthia Latest

We are pleased to announce the official v3.2 of dentOS, the SwitchDev based Network Operating System for Open Networking Hardware.
This release includes support for both arm64 and amd64 systems.

What's Changed

• Update DentOS to debian10 #216
• Enable VRF #227
• Add new platform TN48M2-SWDEV #217
• Virtualized dentOS environment https://github.com/dentproject/dentOS/wiki/How-to-install-Dent-on-a-virtual-machine-manager

Features include:

Fully validated feature set 
                ECMP: Equal Cost Multi-Path
                LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol
                LLDP: Link Layer Discovery Protocol
                RSTP: Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol 
                VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

Pre-built binaries can be found at https://repos.refinery.dev/service/rest/repository/browse/dent/releases/org/dent/3.2/

Known Issues:

dentproject/testing#391 - IPv6 traffic is trapped to CPU
denprojetc/dentOS#260 Update LLDPd for debian 10
denprojetc/dentOS#261 Include hostapd package with wired support for debian 10

Full Changelog: v3.1...v3.2

dentOS v3.1 Cynthia

dentOS v3.1 Cynthia Latest

We are pleased to announce the official v3.1 of dentOS, the SwitchDev based Network Operating System for Open Networking Hardware.
This release includes support for both arm64 and amd64 systems.

Features include:

Fully validated feature set 
                802.1x: Port-based Network Access Control
                QoS: Measurement and Management of network traffic
                IPv6: Latest Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched networking
                IGMP Snooping: Multi-cast group management
                Egress Policer: Port based traffic control

Pre-built binaries can be found at https://repos.refinery.dev/service/rest/repository/browse/dent/releases/org/dent/3.1/

Known Issues:

dentproject/testing#199 - A utility issue (stress-ng, version 0.07.16) causes some of the tests fail intermittently.

dentOS v3.0 Cynthia

We are pleased to announce the official v3.0 of dentOS, the SwitchDev based Network Operating System for Open Networking Hardware.
This release includes support for both arm64 and amd64 systems.

Features include:

Traffic Control
                TC Flower (Petunia)

Early Access:
                802.1x: Port-based Network Access Control
                QoS: Measurement and Management of network traffic
                IPv6: Latest Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched networking
                IGMP Snooping: Multi-cast group management.
                Egress Policer: Port based traffic control.

Pre-built binaries can be found at https://repos.refinery.dev/service/rest/repository/browse/dent/releases/org/dent/3.0/

Known Issues:

dentproject/testing#199 - A utility issue (stress-ng, version 0.07.16) causes some of the tests fail intermittently.

dentOS v2.0 Beeblebrox

We are pleased to announce the official v2.0 of dentOS, the SwitchDev based Network Operating System for Open Networking Hardware.

This release includes support for both arm64 and amd64 systems and both Marvell and Mellanox MAC/ASiCs.

Features include:

NAT-44, and PT
    NAT on pure Layer-3 port
    NAT on VLAN tagged port (bridge)

Configuring 802.1q interface (IpRoute2, Ifupdown2)
    Routing on 802.1Q interface

PoE controller

Scale & Performance Improvements
    Improve Firewall Scaling numbers
    Improve Firewall Programming Performance

Resource management for ACLs
    Add Flags to recognize LOCAL Ips

User application support
    Configuring Port Isolation

Devlink – local trap/hard drop counters

Pre-built binaries can be found at https://repos.refinery.dev/service/rest/repository/browse/dent/releases/org/dent/2.0/

dentOS v1.0 Arthur

We are pleased to announce the official v1.0 of dentOS, the SwitchDev based Network Operating System for Open Networking Hardware.

This release includes support for both arm64 and amd64 systems and both Marvell and Mellanox MAC/ASiCs.

Features include:

802.1Q Support

Dynamic Routing
    Support for OSPF via FRR
    Support for ISIS  via FRR

Dataplane policing
    BUM traffic Policing
    Data packet policing
    Control packet policing

Extend TC persistence tool for policers

Pre-built binaries can be found at https://repos.refinery.dev/service/rest/repository/browse/dent/releases/org/dent/1.0/

Initial Release

This release supports all ARM64 DENT specific hardware the NXP ARDBs and some AMD64 hardware such as the Mellanox SN2410 and KVM.

Based on Debian and Linux Kernel 5.6, extra support for Marvell SwitchDev drivers has been added.

As a pre-release, this image is useful for testing and working with dentOS but is not recommended to be used as a production NOS.