routed && route6d removal proposal

[Eugene Grosbein]

23.06.2020 2:26, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>> 22.06.2020 19:49, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>> Whats unmaintained about code that has no need to change cause it just pretty much works?
>> Have you actually tried running routed(8) as base for real network with loops,
>> mix of p2p and ethernet-like interfaces, IPv4 aliases, need of offset-lists and
>> with diameter about 6 hops?
> 
> As I said I know of people that are running and it is working, and
> Hiroko's post clearly establishes that as fact in evidence.
> 
> I am not even sure that RIP* has loop detection in the protocol,

It has, of course.

> as the prefered routing protocol for anything multipath (which
> is what loops are in effect) is OSPF.

RIPv2 may be used for failover, not for multipath. Any redundant route creates L3 "multipath".

>> I'm not talking about RIPv2 inherent deficiencies.
>> Our routed just glitches where quagga's ripd just works.
> 
> And your PR# for reporting the bug is?

Was. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51927
Never had a chance to verify if it was really fixed in HEAD because it was not for RELENG_4,
so I moved to ripd. As you may remeber, RELENG_5 needed much time to become ready for production.