Re: Cyclades Router OS License

[Luiz Felipe <luiz@grupocarvalho.com.br>]

Brunasso, Steven wrote:

> What university?  UFRDJ? UFRGS?
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No, i live so far from UFRJ and UFRGS. My institution is Faete 
(www.faete.edu.br).

> A router is a processor and multiple interfaces.  It is very simple.  I
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Now you know the main reason of my idea ;)

> would think you are interested in making a 3 port Ethernet router.
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I definitively got what i asked. Very thanks to you, Steven.

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> From: Luiz Felipe [mailto:luiz@grupocarvalho.com.br] 
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: Cyclades Router OS License
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> > On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:04:56 -0300, Luiz wrote in message 
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> > > Cyclades' OS is a Linux. So, ins't Cyclades, by implications of GPL, 
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> > ..uh?  Which router, which hardware, which router OS, which OS source?
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> By what i see, any hardware which i could program an OS would be nice, 
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Atenciosamente,
Luiz Felipe de souza Gomes
Network Administrator