From what I know large cloud providers use these devices, Google could be among them.
I've read up on the BCM56514 which powers the device (there're 2 of them in it, each providing 24 1g ports and 4 10 or 12g ports - it seems one 10g port of each chip is used to provide the 2 SFP+ ports, and...
Ok, it seems that it's not the software itself that disables the routing. I've found a way to decompress the image, and there're lots of strings that suggest routing support.
printf "\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" |cat - <(dd if=lb4m_image bs=1336 skip=1) |gzip -dc > lb4m_image_decompressed...
I noticed that the documentation is about an image with full routing functions (static routing, ospf, etc) - while every image I've seen here or on my devices does only switching. Do you have any idea where we could get the routing image? It would make these devices much more valuable.
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