hi,
During the pub session after Zanog2024/iWeek, Sander mentioned his friend that did a Linux router using VPP, so I asked him more information about it, and he responded below. Anybody else that is/have tested similar and could share advice on locally (ie. South African) sourceable parts ?
In the mean time I also talked to Pim van Pelt (the friend mentioned above). He’d be willing to come to a future ZANOG if travel expenses can be covered (ZANOG covered my travel expenses this time, so it has been done before :) and the timing works with his full-time job at Google. It’s amazing that he manages to do all this work next to having a full-time job in the first place! :D
Anyway, I can really recommend ZANOG inviting Pim in the future!
Cheers, Sander