From owner-freebsd-net Wed Feb 19 13:57:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715EC37B405 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from monet.titania.net (enter.titania.net [192.133.102.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D13143F3F for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:57:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jtk@titania.net) Received: from titania.net (morisot.titania.net [192.133.102.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by monet.titania.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1JLxYYZ017365 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:59:35 GMT (envelope-from jtk@titania.net) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:23:16 -0600 Subject: Re: support of iso networking Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG To: Garrett Wollman From: "Joseph T. Klein" In-Reply-To: <200302192113.h1JLD8X8093608@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-Id: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On the other hand the NetBSD folks don't see it as dead weight and systems that may need to talk with core routers that use IS-IS end up on other platforms. Perhaps this is why Arbor uses NetBSD. On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > >> Has anyone done work to incorporate the ISO networking code >> into FreeBSD? This has been done for NetBSD. It is a required >> component if one wishes to natively support ISO based protocols >> such as IS-IS. > > For the limited value that OSI protocols have today, it is a much > better use of resources to simply integrate the protocol stack into > the application. IIRC, IS-IS runs directly on top of CLNP, so all of > the ISO-TP and TCP-over-CLNP stuff is irrelevant to it. > > We chose a long time ago to drop support for OSI protocols because > the network stack was evolving significantly and nobody wanted to > carry that deadweight around. > > -GAWollman > > > -- Joseph T. Klein Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator Adelphia Backbone Team PSTN: +1 414 628 3380 INOC-DBA: 19548*585 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message