Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:22:13 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Lexi Winter <lexi@le-fay.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing RIP/RIPng (routed/route6d) Message-ID: <20240415202213.B9BDC6F@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <Zh2JpNbUa5_T0QiA@ilythia.eden.le-fay.org> References: <Zh2JpNbUa5_T0QiA@ilythia.eden.le-fay.org>
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In message <Zh2JpNbUa5_T0QiA@ilythia.eden.le-fay.org>, Lexi Winter writes: > > --YwhyjZXuuh/1LhYW > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > > hello, > > currently FreeBSD ships routed(8) and route6d(8) which implement the RIP > resp. RIPng routing protocols. > > many years ago, it was fairly common for hosts to run these protocols to > get their routing table and it made sense to ship an implementation with > the operating systems. > > nowadays, these are fairly niche protocols and have been replaced in > most networks by either static routing tables (mostly just a default > route) or more modern routing protocols like IBGP/EBGP, OSPF or IS-IS. > as such, i'm not convinced there's any value continuing to ship these > with the OS. > > for people who do want to continue running RIP/RIPng, there are several > implementations available in ports, such as net/bird2 and net/quagga. > > i'd like to submit a patch to remove both of these daemons from src. if > there's some concern that people still want to use the BSD > implementation of routed/route6d, i'm also willing to submit a port such > as net/freebsd-routed containing the old code, in a similar way to how > the removal of things like window(1) and telnetd(8) were handled. > > does anyone have an opinion on this? If a port, the source repo must contain full history extracted from our src tree like I did with our telnetd and ftpd extracts. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org e^(i*pi)+1=0
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