Milk-V Vega

Milk-V Vega

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Milk-V Vega offers comprehensive second-layer network protocol processing capabilities, including L2 bridging, L2 multicast, and storm suppression, among others. It supports VLAN functions based on streams, ports, protocols, and subnets. The device also provides support for STP, RSTP, and QinQ functionalities. Additionally, it includes features like defense against DOS attacks, black and white lists, and protocol packet filtering. Milk-V Vega facilitates filtering, link aggregation, OAM message transmission, and port protection functionalities. It further supports both ingress and egress ACL functionalities, as well as Ethernet synchronization and 1588 features.

Milk-V Vega is a compact and low-density box-style open-source 10 Gigabit network switch developed by Milk-V for the next generation of network architecture. It serves as a unified platform for various services such as broadband, voice, video, and surveillance. Equipped with domestically produced RISC-V high-reliability network switch chips from China, it simplifies network infrastructure, reduces energy and operational costs, and finds applications in data centers, industrial parks, medium to large enterprise networks, hotels, and educational institutions.

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Florian Heigl
Really cool product, but not just open-source but unfinished

It's a nice layer2 switch for the price, has some cool telco-style features and if you get two of them you can mount them side-by-side in a standard 19" rack.

There are gaps that remain unclear, i.e. the OAM support is mentioned but not exposed.
The API exists but you are pretty much down to scratching everything together based on the existing webinterface. There is no actual CLI that would also be uising that API and no additional API bindings. The config is stored in some SQLite database or file (don't remember) that is not documented and there's no API to atomically update multiple settings etc.

The installed software (web interface, specifically) was developed externally and is incomplete (missing SNMP oids) and seems to not be getting any updates, ever. The UI isn't a dedicated OSS project so you'd need to tackle that along the way.
So unless you want to buy a few 100 or a few 1000 and thus can make a financial case, it will be of limited long-term use.

There's an OpenWRT port that was done at by a student at a university networking lab in china but it is not published. accordingly you can also not expect to move in that direction.
The SFP support list is extremely specific - and short - for unknown reason.
The port LEDs are not the greatest and can differ in brightness. They have no good layout, SFP ports LEDs are in one area, not colocated with the SFPs, and the RJ45 port LEDs are with the ports. So you can never get a full information in one glance. The 10g ports light up "activiity" if a SFP is plugged in. Makes no sense.

Suffice to say, it's a cool little switch with great potential, but it is not yet unfolding.
Hardware-wise, it would greatly benefit from 1 or 2 internal SD card slots, maybe 128MB extra Ram and a second core (you can notice the latency if you use HTTPS, plus it would help with stability for management daemons)

I'm happy that I bought it, I wish I had two of them and I can recommend getting one for hacking. I can not recommend it for ISP use cases unless one has the neccessary scale to deploy them as a large fleet and can use TR-069 instead of the current UI or reach another similar solution. If the OpenWRT port is published or the Web Ui properly (!) becomes an OSS project with a path to a CLI, then the situation would improve manyfold.

And I repeat, I <3 the little bugger.