Opensource resources for SD-WAN

[jason.jackal]

I am reading a great deal about SD-wan recently; however, I am still new to the concepts and solutions. Due to the latter, is there anything Ubuntu or Linux/FeeBSD offers to turn x86 machines into a router like device that can be paired with a central controller, and an orchestra?

Cisco offers a number of items and solutions, products for SD-WAN; however, that would cost some money. At this point I just want to build a lab, and proof of concept, so: support, warranty and licenses is not a main concern... just getting the concepts and proof down.

Thank you

[TheFu]

There are many Linux SD LAN/WAN tools. Google found a few. I’ve not used any.
https://www.linux.com/news/5-open-source-software-defined-networking-projects-know/

As you can imagine, F/LOSS doesn't have a marketing department going to colleges and pushing their "really great" hardware w/ 15% fees for annual maintenance/patches.

[jason.jackal]

There are many Linux SD LAN/WAN tools. Google found a few. I’ve not used any.
https://www.linux.com/news/5-open-source-software-defined-networking-projects-know/

As you can imagine, F/LOSS doesn't have a marketing department going to colleges and pushing their "really great" hardware w/ 15% fees for annual maintenance/patches.

Thank you for the link; however, I did find the same resources, so I should have been more specific. You answered my real question - if you have used any of the opensource SD-WAN controllers.

[TheFu]

Thank you for the link; however, I did find the same resources, so I should have been more specific. You answered my real question - if you have used any of the opensource SD-WAN controllers.

A client was using an SD-LAN grid tool for some of their container apps. I never had to touch that aspect.
Suspect you'd be better asking this sort of question on the #ubuntu-server IRC than here. It is a different crowd there. These forums are mostly home desktop users with a few web-dev professionals.

And if you are interested in direct experience, put that in the title. Linux is huge, so nobody knows or has experience with everything.

As for SD-WAN stuff, the closest I've come was asking a network design engineer to connect 13 business locations with thousands of users each to an ATM network redundantly. ATM networks route around failures. In my mind, I see a grid network, but really don't have any idea how it is actually accomplished in the hardware.