Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:11:07 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <200403021611.07590.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]> References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]>
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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 13:07, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:26 AM +0300 2004/03/02, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > Is there any plans about integration of BGP routing daemon (Zebra > > or Quagga) into FreeBSD? With BGP routing daemon onboard, FreeBSD > > will be a strong alternative against expensive commercial routers. I > > have successfull experience of running FreeBSD STABLE with 2 full BGP > > views for half a year. Modern i386 PC can route/filter/shape much > > more traffic than expensive Cisco 36xx. I haven't yet compared with > > 7000 series... > > Talk to people who have real-world experience in running > zebra/quagga in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking > full views. The guy who is designing bgpd for OpenBSD gave a talk on > the subject at FOSDEM, and it was very enlightening to hear about the > problems with zebra (which went commercial and the open source > version basically hasn't been touched in years) and quagga (which is > a community of zebra users trying desperately to fix the worst of the > bugs), and how he has used this information during his design of a > replacement, and the methodology he used to make sure that the > resulting system is robust and capable of being used in real-world > production environments. > <...> > > If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD > and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved, > with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with > crap like zebra or quagga. Yes, please! Henning is a hero ;) still I'd give him some time to get this stable at OpenBSD before porting it over. I believe that he has plans to have it stable for 3.5 (due date May 1st), but I'd give it another release before speaking of a really stable system. With other things on my list: ALTQ and CARP most noteable, FreeBSD could make a very good routing solution. -- Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet
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