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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:30 +0200
From:      Andrew Degtiariov <ad@astral-on.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <20040302135230.GF3438@astral-on.net>
In-Reply-To: <p06002016bc6a3d9b6c9c@[10.0.1.3]>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:36:50PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 11:02 AM +0200 2004/03/02, Andrew Degtiariov wrote:
> 
> > What's difference (*currently*) beetwen FreeBSD+Zebra and Cisco routers?
> 
> 	Support for VRRP?  Support for various other routing protocols 
> not covered by zebra/quagga -- at least not yet, if ever?  Support 
> for line cards and other devices that do not exist in a format you 
> can plug into a PC?
> 
> 	Maybe there's nothing you can do about this last item, but 
> there's plenty that can be done on the software side -- just take a 
> look at all the protocols that have been identified as being 
> desirable, but not yet implemented by zebra/quagga.
> 
> 
> 	Oh, and then there are all the operational issues where 
> zebra/quagga can't keep sessions going when a neighbor flaps, etc.... 
> Those would require re-architecting the whole routing system, at 
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Congratulation. That's namely what the conversation was about.

> which point it might make a lot more sense to go with a different 
> implementation -- such as bgpd from OpenBSD.

-- 
Andrew Degtiariov 
DA-RIPE



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