From owner-freebsd-net Wed Feb 19 14:12:10 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 6B4E737B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E950C43F3F for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from PHE (silver.he.iki.fi [193.64.42.241]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.6/8.11.4) with SMTP id h1JMC4DT033831; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:12:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <041c01c2d863$ed9ac3e0$932a40c1@PHE> From: "Petri Helenius" To: "Garrett Wollman" , "Joseph T. Klein" Cc: References: <5C61A316-4450-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> Subject: Re: support of iso networking Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:12:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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. > It should be noted that hardly anything qualifies as "dead weight" on operating system that runs on your toaster, car stereo and washing machine not to mention old computers. There are different tools for different tasks and the quest for "there should be only one" is futile. The most significant router vendor using an open source OS is based on FreeBSD anyway so there should be no reason for shame. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message