From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jul 1 22:31:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05234 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05229 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA28783; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:31:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:31:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807020531.XAA28783@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Ill be da*ned Juniper lists FreeBSd as its roots for JUNOS From: Wes Peters To: opsys@mail.webspan.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Wes Peters In-Reply-To: References: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 1.6 (TrialWare) X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA05230 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My hidden microphone recorded Open Systems Networking (opsys@mail.webspan.net) saying: % This was MOST cool! Juniper just announced availability of its JUNOS % routing software and they even to my astonishment were very clear in % announcing it was using FreeBSD as it's root. Mainly the kernel. % I for one was EXTREMELY pleased to see this announced on their pages. % Of course the part about ripping out a significant piece of the networking % code because it couldnt handle the LARGE ammounts of net traffic juniper % says its using their junos for COULD have been left out IMO :-) You'd be surprised the amount of work it takes to make an industrial- strength router, even from FreeBSD sources. The L3 switches I work on during the day are based on VxWorks, which is based on the 4.2 BSD TCP/IP implementation, but our TCP/IP stack has been hacked on by some very talented engineers for over 4 years to get to the point where it is now. Not to mention the fact that switches work in a very different environment from a "normal" router. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message