FrogNet in a brownfield network
You do not have to migrate a network to FrogNet.
It is not a migration. It is an insertion. Put a FrogNet node immediately below actual egress at a site. Existing hosts keep their addresses, gateways, applications, and internet connectivity. None of them takes an agent. FrogNet adds its network alongside the one already there.
Existing Networks — insertion into a brownfield enterprise, on camera.
One correction to the video: semantic compression applies to traffic that crosses between FrogNet nodes — site to site over the tunnel. Traffic between two existing machines on the same LAN does not pass through the node and is unaffected. See Croakus §22b.
Correct. They don't have to. And address alone is not membership.
"You will never replace our network."
Correct. Existing default routing stays intact, ordinary traffic keeps behaving ordinarily, FrogNet's routing is additive.
"We have thousands of endpoints and half of them cannot run your software."
They do not have to. Below-egress insertion means unmodified machines participate — printers, cameras, badge readers, controllers, untouchable legacy boxes. No per-host mesh can make that claim: Tailscale, ZeroTier and Netbird all require an agent on each participant.
"We are already using 10-space everywhere."
Address alone is not membership. A machine is reached through a FrogNet node, and a node is one that answers when discovery calls. FrogNet rides alongside your 10-space rather than claiming it.
What it will not do — which makes the pitch stronger, not weaker.
Overlapping 10-space between sites is the network administrator's problem, as it is today with any router. What FrogNet guarantees is that it will not create the problem: a subnet whose .1 does not answer never acquires a route.
VLANs and everything else below the insertion point are untouched. FrogNet works on the addresses that arrive and does not need to know how many broadcast domains produced them.
One node does not mean one node per subnet. A node serves a single /24 — its own segment, not a claim on yours. A site with twelve VLANs needs one node, because the L3 switch already routes between them.
Two questions an architect asks next — what happens to internet connectivity when the node is down, and what insertion does to line rate — have not been measured yet, and this page will not carry a number until they have.
The Existing Networks video → Croakus §1b and §22b → Contact →