From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 11:43:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5174016A4DB; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:43:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-67-117-158-73.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.117.158.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28CAC43D1F; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 67DFB9EEF0; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3826D9B148; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:43:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:43:40 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Hoskins To: net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040302113821.S53840@snafu.adept.org> References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302084321.GA21729@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 04:46:37 -0800 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:43:45 -0000 On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Brad Knowles 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? actually, there's a lot of differences at the hardware level (beside available interfaces) -- some of which will probably always be there (on any platform). just post this question to nanog, and wait for your inbox to be flooded. (yes, hard to believe, but there really are technically justifiable reasons a lot of big names use hardware engineered for the task of routing beside paying ridiculous fees to the vendors.) as for vrrp, there is an opensource/RFC-compliant implementation that works on FreeBSD. actually, it was coded specifically for FreeBSD. http://freshmeat.net/projects/freebsd-hut i have never used this on a large-scale (i've never considered pre-1.0 software "stable"), but have used it many places for failover inside clusters with satisfactory results. -m