From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 05:53:10 2004 Return-Path: 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 2248916A4CE; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from tiamat.astral-on.net (mail.astral-on.net [193.41.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480AB43D1D; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ad@astral-on.net) Received: from odin.astral-on.net (odin.astral-on.net [193.41.4.6]) by mail.astral-on.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i22DqWA2052166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ad@astral-on.net) Received: from odin.astral-on.net (localhost.astral-on.net [127.0.0.1]) by odin.astral-on.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i22DqW41020530; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ad@odin.astral-on.net) Received: (from ad@localhost) by odin.astral-on.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id i22DqU5Z020529; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:30 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:52:30 +0200 From: Andrew Degtiariov To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040302135230.GF3438@astral-on.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302031625.GA4061@scylla.towardex.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <20040302084321.GA21729@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040302090219.GC3438@astral-on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on tiamat.astral-on.net Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ad@astral-on.net List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:53:10 -0000 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