Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:59:35 +0300 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <20040302125935.GA25835@cell.sick.ru> In-Reply-To: <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]> References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302031625.GA4061@scylla.towardex.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: B> > Is there any plans about integration of BGP routing daemon (Zebra or B> > Quagga) into FreeBSD? With BGP routing daemon onboard, FreeBSD will be B> > a strong alternative against expensive commercial routers. I have B> > successfull experience of running FreeBSD STABLE with 2 full BGP views B> > for half a year. Modern i386 PC can route/filter/shape much more traffic B> > than expensive Cisco 36xx. I haven't yet compared with 7000 series... B> B> Talk to people who have real-world experience in running B> zebra/quagga in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking B> full views. The guy who is designing bgpd for OpenBSD gave a talk on Haven't you understand? I'm the "person who has real-world experience in running zebra in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking full views". B> the subject at FOSDEM, and it was very enlightening to hear about the B> problems with zebra (which went commercial and the open source B> version basically hasn't been touched in years) and quagga (which is Browse zebra CVS to make sure that author is commiting bugfixes. For example: last commit to BGP code is done 2 weeks ago. B> a community of zebra users trying desperately to fix the worst of the B> bugs), and how he has used this information during his design of a I can't say a word about quagga, since I haven't use it, but I have positive experience with zebra (see above). B> If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD B> and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved, B> with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with B> crap like zebra or quagga. I stop replying... Do not like flame. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE
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