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FRRouting Open Discussion#

SwiNOG #42 digest Program Adjacent pick 20–21 October 2026

Slides Recording

Martin Winter - NetDEF / FRRouting

Play the recording: FRRouting Open Discussion

  • Why: Light on content by design (it was an interactive feedback session), but worth a note for a PM with BGP/datapath interests: it's a deliberately vendor-free channel to the maintainers of the open-source routing suite that underpins SONiC, white-box NOSes, and much of the leaf-spine world.
  • What: An experiment in format — no product pitch, just community Q&A on FRR's state (forked from Quagga 2017, ~30 maintainers, BGP/OSPF/IS-IS/LDP/BFD and more, 10.7.1 current) and what's missing for operator use cases.
  • How: Structured prompts (who uses it, who tried and stopped and why, what's missing), with NetDEF — which runs FRR's community CI and has three employees in Switzerland — explicitly inviting feature requests, bug reports, and contributions.
  • Where applicable: Relevant to anyone evaluating open-source control planes for routers, route servers, or container-networking BGP; the session itself is a one-off, but the contact channel is durable. Skippable if you weren't in the room.