My planned work on networking stack
Andrew Degtiariov
ad at astral-on.net
Tue Mar 2 05:53:10 PST 2004
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:36:50PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 11:02 AM +0200 2004/03/02, Andrew Degtiariov wrote:
>
> > What's difference (*currently*) beetwen FreeBSD+Zebra and Cisco routers?
>
> Support for VRRP? Support for various other routing protocols
> not covered by zebra/quagga -- at least not yet, if ever? Support
> for line cards and other devices that do not exist in a format you
> can plug into a PC?
>
> Maybe there's nothing you can do about this last item, but
> there's plenty that can be done on the software side -- just take a
> look at all the protocols that have been identified as being
> desirable, but not yet implemented by zebra/quagga.
>
>
> Oh, and then there are all the operational issues where
> zebra/quagga can't keep sessions going when a neighbor flaps, etc....
> Those would require re-architecting the whole routing system, at
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Congratulation. That's namely what the conversation was about.
> which point it might make a lot more sense to go with a different
> implementation -- such as bgpd from OpenBSD.
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Andrew Degtiariov
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