FreeBSD Port of OpenOSPFD

[Andre Oppermann]

Phil Regnauld wrote:
> 
> Florent Thoumie (flz) writes:
> >
> > Since it may take some time before distfiles are propagated to all ftp
> > servers, get the distfiles here [2] and put them in
> > ${DISTDIR}/openospfd/
> >
> > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/openospfd.shar
> > [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/distfiles/openospfd/
> 
>         Nice!  So now all we need it a port of xorp (http://www.xorp.org/),
>         and it will be quite a collection with quagga, zebra and open[bgp|ospf]d.

Zebra is dead.  Quagga is a fork of it which is actively being worked on.
The original author of Zebra went to start his own company commercially
selling and developing the codebase he already had.  There hasn't been
any meaningful activity on open-source Zebra for years.

Xorp is still mostly a research suite of routing protocols and has a
IMHO very strage configuration logic.

OpenBGPD and OpenOSPFD are routing daemons made for BSD kernels, with
security and scalability in mind.  On top of that they are written with
a lot of actual real-world network engineering experience behind it.
The configuration system is far more practical, powerful and on purpose
than the Cisco-CLI copy of Quagga.  For example the complex filter
configuration of an Internet-Exchange route server which takes about
20k of config on Quagga/Cisco can be expressed in about 8 short lines
for OpenBGPD.

-- 
Andre