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Date:      Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:59:06 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <4044F59A.E1049B4D@freebsd.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> I'm open to bringing it on board as a port, but I don't feel that carrying
> a BGP daemon around in the base system is in the best interests of the
> Project or our user base.

I share that opinion.  A bgpd doesn't have any business in the base tree.

> > The last time I looked at his code it looked pretty much like a straight
> > lift from the MRTD tree. This was a few months ago... and this was brief...
> 
> Let me just qualify this statement - I have not had the chance to have
> anything more than a cursory glance at this code, this was a 'prima facie'
> impression when I was heavily involved with other work. Not to disrespect
> anyone else's hard work, as some people mistakenly seem to be under this
> impression.

As one of the guys involved in OpenBSDs new bgpd I can assure you that
there is no code lifted from mrtd whatsoever.  Henning started with the
session handler part and then Claudio and I got involved for the bgp
routing table part (RDE, route decision engine).  I then delivered the
original internal design of the RDE and how to store the bgp path and
nexthop information in an optimal way for the common bgp transactions.
Which essentially means that all structures are attached together in
many linked lists.  All the coding is being done by Henning and Claudio.

-- 
Andre



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