From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 16:41:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CBC156E9 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA01360; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199904272341.QAA01360@apollo.backplane.com> To: Chuck Robey Cc: Garrett Wollman , sthaug@nethelp.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy. References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :> - Recent values of GateD are distributed under a very unfriendly :> license. : :Must be more to it, then. The basic idea of what the OSPF router :program should do, it doesn't sound like a huge problem to do, and the :actual specs are pretty well laid out and public, right? : :----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- :Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior even on 'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, like BGP. GateD is *very* unfriendly. It is user-unfriendly and it is OSS-unfriendly. It is not something I would like to see in the base distribution ( nor something I think we could put in the base distribution ). Also, the older, more OSS friendly versions of gated have too many bugs to be useable as a base. The OSPF implementation in it wasn't really fixed until late last year. For a knowledgeable programmer, building an OSPF router is not too hard to do, especially on modern UNIX systems like FreeBSD and Linux which have route monitoring sockets and fine control over the kernel routing tables. It would be a very cool thing to add. About a man-month worth of programming & debugging. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message