Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:15:07 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Subject: Re: Quagga as border router Message-ID: <20070924091507.GB8111@void.codelabs.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070921181006.GG1906@gerbil.cluepon.net> References: <46F1AC0B.9040109@ibctech.ca> <46F1BDE1.8090102@gmail.com> <46F1E900.7070604@elischer.org> <46F1F376.3020609@ibctech.ca> <20070920072409.GT79417@elvis.mu.org> <20070920114839.M37866@swaggi.com> <20070921035449.GC1906@gerbil.cluepon.net> <20070921214602.38487d27@meijome.net> <20070921181006.GG1906@gerbil.cluepon.net>
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Richard, good day. Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > Interesting.... what is the golden aim of software based router we should be > > trying to reach? > > Well for starters, to have a routing stack that is based on any modern > techniques developed in the last 20 years or so. It may not even matter, > there is plenty to FreeBSD that has absolutely nothing to do with routing, > and if all you're doing is throw 5Mbps at a core 2 duo it really doesn't > matter how the routing code is implemented. :) There are plenty of good > folks who understand all of this perfectly well (for example Andre > Oppermann), who are working hard to modernize fbsd's routing code, so I > have full faith that it will be fixed eventually. :) Could you please throw some links to these modern techniques? I am keen to read about it. Thank you. -- Eygene
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